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bubnikv edited this page Jul 4, 2018 · 6 revisions

This document describes known problems that people ran into when running Slic3r and provides a way to solve them.

Running post processing perl scripts on Windows

If you see the following error message: post processing script failed you may need to move your perl script from the system directory (c:) into your user directory, see #975.

Ubuntu 16.04

Clicking on menu items hangs page

Symptom

Page is no longer responding after clicking on the left side menu (e.g. Layers, Infill, Skirt, Support, etc.)

Solution

Enable legacy mode for scrolling. For this you need to:

  1. Install Unity Tweak Tool. Use sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool
  2. Launch Unity Tweak Tool from Unity’s Dash menu or command line
  3. Set scrollbars to "Legacy"

Ubuntu 18.04

Clicking on menu items hangs page

Symptom

Page is no longer responding after clicking on the left side menu (e.g. Layers, Infill, Skirt, Support, etc.)

Solution (workaround)

Enable legacy mode for scrolling. For this you need to open a terminal and enter:

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

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