The official linux distro that works with Waveform13

[edrickblade]

What is the error you get? One of the most common causes for immediate crashes when first starting out comes from not knowing that you have to set memlimits to allow your software to get the RAM it needs. Otherwise, the OOM Killer can kill your program.

Can I set memlimit to "unlimited" in Pipewire 1.0.5?

I believe so. I don’t see why not.

I did it, but Waveform 13.3.6 still crashing when try to open a project, I'll stay with 13.2.0 until they fix those headaches.

[edrickblade]

Update, I installed Tracktion WF 13.3.6 beta on Ubuntu 20.04.6 and works well but I needed to install "ms-ttf-pack" because without that, WF will crash opening projects, also installed ubuntu-restricted-extras, I'm using it with ALSA audio back-end, no Jack or Pipewire and it's working flawlessly with the only drawback that the "edit with external wave editor" is broken on linux.

[talby]

Thanks for sharing with us how you solved the issue concerning the crashing WF by installing missing packages to Ubuntu 20.

Concerning your problem with "edit with external wave editor" is broken "on" Linux, I more suspect that it is broken "in" your particular Linux configuration, but not mainly being an error caused by WF. Please check about this issue in the other thread, where you also brought up this issue, and let us continue discussing the problem there. Next step to do is to there confirm to us the output from the command given to you in this post: viewtopic.php?p=9035346#p9035346

[edrickblade]

Thanks for sharing with us how you solved the issue concerning the crashing WF by installing missing packages to Ubuntu 20.

Concerning your problem with "edit with external wave editor" is broken "on" Linux, I more suspect that it is broken "in" your particular Linux configuration, but not mainly being an error caused by WF. Please check about this issue in the other thread, where you also brought up this issue, and let us continue discussing the problem there. Next step to do is to there confirm to us the output from the command given to you in this post: viewtopic.php?p=9035346#p9035346

The open with default wave editor issue was a permission issue because my projects are in a secondary SSD and the "Create and Edit Files" permission was only available to root owner, I fix the issue with "cd ./disk1" and "sudo chown -v $USER /mnt/disk1" also backed up the disk, reformatted as a local disk then it has my user permissions.

However the "edit with external wave editor" is not available the same as is in Windows/Mac, It have the keyboard shortcut but doesn't have the option to choose the external wave editor as in Windows/Mac, it looks like the they coded linux version different in that option.

[talby]

Good to hear that you got it sorted out!

Yes, you are right. The Linux version cannot configure the wished to be used external editor application in WF like it is possible in Windows, but can only call the app which in the Linux system is configured to be the default app for opening WAV files. Nevertheless, if you configure this 'mime type : app assignment' for WAV files in your Linux system for your editor of choice, then it works fine.