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    From Ed Cryer@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 20 15:06:36 2024
    All of a sudden it won't open its GUI. It loads ok, ends task ok, but no
    GUI.
    Other programs seem ok.

    Ed

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  • From Ed Cryer@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 20 15:42:34 2024
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  • From Big Al@21:1/5 to Ed Cryer on Tue Aug 20 10:41:45 2024
    On 8/20/24 10:06 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
    All of a sudden it won't open its GUI. It loads ok, ends task ok, but no GUI. Other programs seem ok.

    Ed
    I have to guess but 'it loads okay' means it gets loaded to a point but never produces the GUI.
    Have you tried right clicking on the toolbar icon for it, maximize. It might be off the screen.
    --
    Linux Mint 21.3, Cinnamon 6.0.4, Kernel 5.15.0-118-generic
    Al

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to Ed Cryer on Tue Aug 20 10:27:08 2024
    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:42:34 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote:

    I have to guess but 'it loads okay' means it gets loaded to a point but
    never produces the GUI.
    Have you tried right clicking on the toolbar icon for it, maximize.  It
    might be off the screen.

    Solved by going into Settings, Apps, Calculator, Reset.

    But I'd still like to know what went wrong. Did the cache get too full?

    Don't know but how did you invoke it as maybe that's the problem perhaps?
    The way I invoke the calculator is "Windows+R | calc" using the keyboard.

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  • From Ed Cryer@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 20 16:48:12 2024
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  • From Ed Cryer@21:1/5 to Ed Cryer on Tue Aug 20 16:52:43 2024
    Ed Cryer wrote:
    Big Al wrote:
    On 8/20/24 10:06 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
    All of a sudden it won't open its GUI. It loads ok, ends task ok, but
    no GUI.
    Other programs seem ok.

    Ed
    I have to guess but 'it loads okay' means it gets loaded to a point
    but never produces the GUI.
    Have you tried right clicking on the toolbar icon for it, maximize.
    It might be off the screen.

    Solved by going into Settings, Apps, Calculator, Reset.

    But I'd still like to know what went wrong. Did the cache get too full?

    Ed

    I've figured it out. I've done it again.
    I have a second monitor, usually turned off; and a program that shifts
    things between screens. I think I'd simply somehow shifted it to the
    second monitor.

    Ed

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+YjiBNaWdodHkgV2FubmFiZ@21:1/5 to Ed Cryer on Tue Aug 20 13:47:48 2024
    Ed Cryer wrote on 8/20/2024 11:48 AM:
    Harry S Robins wrote:
    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:42:34 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote:

    I have to guess but 'it loads okay' means it gets loaded to a point
    but never produces the GUI.
    Have you tried right clicking on the toolbar icon for it,
    maximize.� It might be off the screen.

    Solved by going into Settings, Apps, Calculator, Reset.

    But I'd still like to know what went wrong. Did the cache get too full?

    Don't know but how did you invoke it as maybe that's the problem
    perhaps?
    The way I invoke the calculator is "Windows+R | calc" using the
    keyboard.

    I type "calc" in the Search box, then click on the app. Two steps.
    That's my usual way to load a program that I don't have pinned to the
    Task Bar.

    Ed


    You can pin it to the Start Menu instead. Lots of room there.

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  • From VanguardLH@21:1/5 to Ed Cryer on Tue Aug 20 16:33:07 2024
    Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:

    All of a sudden it won't open its GUI. It loads ok, ends task ok, but no
    GUI.
    Other programs seem ok.

    Before loading it, check Task Manager to verify there is not already an instance of it loaded. calc.exe loads first which then loads CalculatorApp.exe). If so, kill the ghost process, and see if a new
    load of Calculator works okay. Don't know why, but eventually after
    using Calculator several times, I see 2 instances of CalculatorApp.exe processes when I'm not using Calculator (and have previously closed it).

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  • From Peter Johnson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 21 12:25:58 2024
    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:48:12 +0100, Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
    wrote:


    I type "calc" in the Search box, then click on the app. Two steps.

    I press a programmed button on my (Logitech) keyboard. One step.

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