Consed keyboard error

[alex_bio]

Hi, my name is Alexandre Bueno. I installed consed ( from phredPhrap package) on two machines. One of them is an old pc and the other is a notebook. Both machines have Xubuntu 18.04 64bit installed in them. The consed version running on the computers is 20.0. the executable of consed is consedlinux64bit_static. After running phredPhrap succesfully, I execute the consed program. The main window of the software opens up. Unfortunetely when I try, file > export consensus with options, it's not possible to type any digits in the field.None of any keyboard's input are recognized by the software and the fields remain blank. I am also sending an image of the problem.The problem happened in both machines. I need help fixing this .Thank you in advance.

[r.rosati]

Hi! In your screenshot, isn't "whole" selected?

[alex_bio]

Hi. Thank you for your reply. At that screen whole is not selected. The problem still persists in another screen. If I try to save the assembly ( the whole ), I even can't write a name for it, because keyboard inputs have no effect at all. I am still trying to figure it out and any help is welcome.

[r.rosati]

I'd love to help more (a fellow researcher from Brazil!), but one needs to fill an application form to get the software and apparently it might take up to 2 weeks for the approval? I've never seen something like that, honestly. Is it so astoundingly good?
Anyways - I'd e-mail the author at this point. When you execute it from terminal, do you get any error while you work on it?

[alex_bio]

Thank you for your time trying to help me. Indeed your question about the terminal message error helped me a lot. The error message at terminal said : Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate . I googled it an find out that consed 20.0 was built based on XKEYSYMDB. This file used to be at /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB on the OS available when consed 20.0 was built, but is deprecated on newer ubuntu based system. This made all inputs from the keyboard non effective in the software. I manage to solve the problem following this tutorial https://magmasource.caltech.edu/foru...hp?topic=142.0 . If the page is no longer available if someone runs true it in the future, just http://goo.gl/bFu6t. and download the file. Then execute this

tar xvfz XKeysymDB.tar.gz
sudo chown root:root XKeysymDB
sudo chmod 644 XKeysymDB
sudo mv XKeysymDB /usr/share/X11

Problem solved. Thank you a lot.

[r.rosati]

Hi, I'm glad you could figure it out! Cheers!