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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0010331 | ardour | bugs | public | 2026-05-12 09:24 | 2026-05-14 19:04 |
| Reporter | moonshaadow | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | block | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | linux | OS | mint | OS Version | 22.3 Cinnamon |
| Product Version | 9.2 | ||||
| Summary | 0010331: Plugins : file manager or dialog boxes don't open | ||||
| Description | I can't use some plugins (LV2/VST3/VST2) because dialog boxes don't appears. For example Decent Sampler, Helm. Plugins that use their own GUI dialog boxes are not affected, issue is with OS boxes (Mint Cinnamon here) I have no problem using Carla or Reaper. It was working before, but I can't remember if there was an update of Ardour or OS. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Add i.e. Decent Sampler plugin (any version). Use File... --> Load... A dialog boxe should open, but nothing happens. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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This is likely caused by older plugins that launch an external app to do that, which can cause dropouts. I expect the workaround mentioned https://github.com/sfztools/sfizz-ui/issues/74#issuecomment-1565879638 will work. See also https://discourse.ardour.org/t/way-to-work-with-audio-samples-as-midi-without-using-a-janky-sampler/107534/23?u=x42 |
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The zenity workaround you had given works, but not for every plugins. i.e. Surge and SurgeXT don't work as expected. Seems like different plugins need different work-around ? --> Decent Sampler is OK without work-around in Carla and Reaper, but needs the zenity tricks in Ardour and Bitwig --> SurgeXT is OK without work-around in Carla, Reaper and Bitwig, but does not work in Ardour anyway, so I assume it doesn't rely on zenity. In the same way, some plugins can't open external links like web links or pdf manuals. i.e. Decent Sampler "--> Files... --> My Account... --> Account details" should open a web browser, it works in any other DAW but not in Ardour. The previous workaround is not helpful here. |
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@x42: that's not the case for decent sampler |
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DecentSampler 1.22.4 works fine with Ardour 9.4 here. Even the "Account Details" part works just fine too (opens the page in my browser). |
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@paul do you test with the official binary (which sets a path to libraries we bundle)? Running from source-tree or distro builds are not affected by this issue. |
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"Open account details" is often blocked when the plugin links against libcurl (as opposed to dlopen() libcurl at runtime). The former fails usually since libcurl we bundle isn't the system-wide one used at compile-time (libcurl-gnutls libcurl-openssl, etc). Recent VST3 SDK does dlopen() and work fine. |
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@x42: you're right, the binary packages do not work with DecentSampler's attempt to open a page in the browser |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2026-05-12 09:24 | moonshaadow | New Issue | |
| 2026-05-12 19:27 | x42 | Note Added: 0030366 | |
| 2026-05-14 14:45 | moonshaadow | Note Added: 0030371 | |
| 2026-05-14 16:26 | paul | Note Added: 0030373 | |
| 2026-05-14 16:27 | paul | Note Added: 0030374 | |
| 2026-05-14 17:51 | x42 | Note Added: 0030375 | |
| 2026-05-14 17:54 | x42 | Note Added: 0030376 | |
| 2026-05-14 19:04 | paul | Note Added: 0030377 |
