Cherrytree: CT freezes/crashes when I try to open Preferences (Win7)

[ChrisAG3]

Hi, I installed v0.38.8 (normal version, not portable) last night, on Win7 64-bit, SP1.
Every time I try to open Preferences, either via File menu or shortcut, this happens:

3-4 seconds passes, no action, and then a shadow/hole of what should be the preferences window appears together with the Win hourglass, and my CPU peaks to around 50% (when no other programs are active). It freezes like this, and I have no other option than to force-close Cherrytree.

And yup, this happens every time, so I still haven't had the pleasure to see the program preferences :D

Anyone else experienced this? Any workarounds?

[ChrisAG3]

Meanwhile I'll just edit the config file manually, works so far.

[giuspen]

Difficult to understand what's going on unless you try and run from the python source code as described from http://giuspen.com/cherrytreemanual/#build-windows

[ghost]

I experience the same issue, but on Manjaro with CherryTree 0.38.9 built from the AUR.

[tripod3d]

I experience the same issue, but on Manjaro with CherryTree 0.38.9 built from the AUR.

Just the same, but in ArchLabs with the same pkg.

[giuspen]

I'll try and reproduce

[giuspen]

I set up a manjaro (xfce) virtualbox, applied all upgrades, installed cherrytree from AUR and can open the preferences dialog without any issue. What I noticed is that Ctrl+Alt+P shortcut opens a desktop dialog so I had to go via the cherrytree top menu instead. Can you share your config.cfg?

[ghost]

Ctrl+Alt+P also crashes my installation.
You find my config attached as a txt (in order to upload it here)
config.txt

Oh and I am on Manjaro Gnome

[tripod3d]

I use the default ArchLabs and the config.cfg is empty.

[tripod3d]

Hi,

I just discovered that it is a font issue with the special characters. I had Noto Sans Mono Regular and this happens, but changed to UbuntuMono Nerd Font Regular and the Preferences window showed up very fast. Then I erased all the special characters, chenged the font again to Noto and it worked fine.

[giuspen]

Thanks @tripod3d, it looks like a bug in the library then that hopefully will go in gtk3

[Chuhtra]

This issue appeared to me today as well (v.0.39.2 in Manjaro KDE), and I managed to overcome it with just deleting the special characters in cofing.cfg. No font edit at all, just the characters.

[eli9999]

The same issue (Plasma5)
config.cfg:

[state]
file_dir = /home/user/Desktop
file_name = ch1.ctb
toolbar_visible = True
win_is_maximized = False
win_position_x = 492
win_position_y = 224
win_size_w = 963
win_size_h = 630
hpaned_pos = 170
tree_visible = True
node_path = 1
cursor_position = 325
doc_0 = /home/user/Desktop/ch1.ctb
pick_dir_import =
pick_dir_export =
pick_dir_file =
pick_dir_img =
pick_dir_csv =
pick_dir_cbox =
link_type = webs
show_node_name_header = True
nodes_on_node_name_header = 3
toolbar_icon_size = 1

[tree]
rest_exp_coll = 0
expanded_collapsed_string = 9,False_1,False_8,False_6,False_2,False_3,False_4,False_5,False_7,False
nodes_bookm_exp = False
nodes_icons = c
aux_icon_hide = False
default_icon_text = 25
tree_right_side = False
cherry_wrap_width = 130
tree_click_focus_text = False
tree_click_expand = False

[editor]
syntax_highlighting = custom-colors
auto_syn_highl = sh
style_scheme = cobalt
spell_check_lang = en_GB
enable_spell_check = False
show_line_numbers = False
spaces_instead_tabs = True
tabs_width = 4
anchor_size = 16
embfile_size = 48
embfile_show_filename = True
embfile_max_size = 10
line_wrapping = True
auto_smart_quotes = True
enable_symbol_autoreplace = True
wrapping_indent = -14
auto_indent = True
rt_show_white_spaces = False
pt_show_white_spaces = True
rt_highl_curr_line = True
pt_highl_curr_line = True
space_around_lines = 0
relative_wrapped_space = 50
h_rule = ~~~~~~~~~
special_chars = “”„‘’•◇▪▸☐☑☒★…‰€©®™°↓↑→←↔↵⇓⇑⇒⇐⇔»«▼▲►◄≤≥≠≈±¹²³½¼⅛×÷∞ø∑√∫ΔδΠπΣΦΩωαβγεηλμ☺☻☼♥♣♦✔♀♂♪♫✝
selword_chars = .-@
chars_listbul = •◇▪-→⇒
chars_todo = ☐☑☒
chars_toc = ▸•◇▪
chars_smart_dquote = “”
chars_smart_squote = ‘’
latest_tag_prop =
latest_tag_val =
timestamp_format = %Y/%m/%d - %H:%M
links_underline = True
links_relative = False
weblink_custom_action = Falsefirefox %s &
filelink_custom_action = Falsexdg-open %s &
folderlink_custom_action = Falsexdg-open %s &

[codebox]
codebox_width = 700.0
codebox_height = 100.0
codebox_width_pixels = True
codebox_line_num = False
codebox_match_bra = True
codebox_syn_highl = plain-text
codebox_auto_resize = False

[table]
table_rows = 1
table_columns = 2
table_column_mode = rename
table_col_min = 40
table_col_max = 60

[fonts]
rt_font = Sans 9
pt_font = Sans 9
tree_font = Sans 8
code_font = Monospace 9

[colors]
rt_def_fg = #000000
rt_def_bg = #7bdc8d
tt_def_fg = #0b0c0c
tt_def_bg = #e0e0e0
monospace_bg = #7f7f7f
palette_list = #000000:#ffffff:#7f7f7f:#ff0000:#a020f0:#0000ff:#add8e6:#00ff00:#ffff00:#ffa500:#e6e6fa:#a52a2a:#8b6914:#1e90ff:#ffc0cb:#90ee90:#1a1a1a:#4d4d4d:#bfbfbf:#e5e5e5
col_link_webs = #00008989ffff
col_link_node = #071c838e071c
col_link_file = #8b8b69691414
col_link_fold = #7f7f7f7f7f7f

[misc]
toolbar_ui_list = tree_add_node,tree_add_subnode,separator,go_node_prev,go_node_next,separator,*,ct_save,export_pdf,separator,find_in_allnodes,separator,handle_bull_list,handle_num_list,handle_todo_list,separator,handle_image,handle_table,handle_codebox,handle_embfile,handle_link,handle_anchor,separator,fmt_rm,fmt_color_fg,fmt_color_bg,fmt_bold,fmt_italic,fmt_underline,fmt_strikethrough,fmt_h1,fmt_h2,fmt_h3,fmt_small,fmt_superscript,fmt_subscript,fmt_monospace
systray = False
start_on_systray = False
use_appind = False
autosave = False
autosave_val = 5
check_version = False
word_count = False
reload_doc_last = True
mod_time_sent = True
backup_copy = True
backup_num = 3
autosave_on_quit = False
limit_undoable_steps = 20
journal_day_format = %d %a

[keyboard]

[codexec_term]

[codexec_type]

[codexec_ext]

[txe]

did you try to delete special_chars ?

[eli9999]

Commenting special_chars didn't help.
Terminal
/home/user/.gtkrc-2.0:18: error: unexpected character ':', expected keyword - e.g. `style'
/usr/share/cherrytree/modules/core.py:67: GtkWarning: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murr
ine",
self.window = gtk.Window()
sel node id=1, seq=2

[txe]

I was a bit unclear, just commenting is not much helpful because the program in this case recovers it from defaults. You need to leave it empty.

special_chars = 

About warnings in console, they do not related to the issue, probably the current gtk2 theme has some problem, and engine 'murrine' is missing, to install it:

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine:i386

[eli9999]

Was no need changing spec_chars for Plasma5: System settings: Gnome/GTK Application style return to defaults helps, while Application Style above can be changed to any any style. Works fine, now ))

[txe]

Good to hear! FYI, the gtk2 library is really outdated, but gtk3 version is coming soon