Sonic-pi: Using sonic pi remotely

Created on 13 Oct 2013  路  12Comments  路  Source: sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi

When using sonic-pi remotely I observed that the play_pad command will not work with the mouse at the remote X-terminal. Outside class rooms headless Pis are quite common, you know.

Second: when "playing" or "stopping" a script I can actually see the color change in the editor beeing painted line by line instead of a rectangle. I can not guess how deep this inefficiency is burried in the Ruby-GUI framework that you use. But could be easy to fix. Or is this a desired effect?

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Months later but I'm facing the same problem now. Newest Jessie, newest SonicPi. I have tightvncserver installed and xrdp. My keyboard mapping is all wrong in Sonic Pi, but fine for everything else.

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I just tried it without the two calls to lexer->setPaper() and that makes the program remotely usable - eh, you get my point ;-)

I'm actually not using a Ruby-GUI, this is just standard Qt programmed in C++

I'll look into an option to turn the flash off, or to at least make it more efficient over an ssh connection. However, I think having the flash is really important for beginners to realise that their code is being evaluated...

Please try the latest GUI in version 2.0 - it's changed a lot and hopefully it will support remote work. Feel free to re-open this issue if not.

Hi Sam, thanks for your wonderful work.

I'm having an issue with text input through VNC and xRDP. I used both my android phone as well as an Ubuntu system for clients. When I type something in Sonic-Pi it's like the keys are mapped all wrong. For instance some of the arrow keys affect window geometry, letters are not where they should be. Otherwise I have no problems with text input in other programs on the raspbian server working remotely.

Is this a bug or should I tweak something on my end?

@oyajiru I have no idea what's causing your issue at all. When you use Sonic Pi directly on the desktop - do you see this strange behaviour too?

@samaaron I just tried it on the desktop with a USB keyboard and that works just fine. The problem only shows up when using VNC or xRDP.

Very odd! This isn't something I've seen before. Sorry you're having issues here.

Are you running Sonic Pi on Ubuntu or a Raspberry Pi?

I'm running Sonic-Pi on a Raspberry Pi 3 with raspbian.

I'll see if I can replicate this locally and get back to you.

Thank you so much.

Months later but I'm facing the same problem now. Newest Jessie, newest SonicPi. I have tightvncserver installed and xrdp. My keyboard mapping is all wrong in Sonic Pi, but fine for everything else.

Having the same issue here: raspberry pi 3, keyboard mapping is all wrong on SonicPi but nothing else. Did anyone ever find a fix?

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