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This has been infuriating me for the past few weeks. The result of this change is that when you use Cura as built from source or via thopiekar's PPA the Gnome shortcut will act only as a launcher for potentially infinite instances of Cura. That is, if you keep clicking it, it will open up more and more instances of Cura. This is because the class cura.real is not present or specified in the desktop file. See this askubuntu thread on the topic; https://askubuntu.com/questions/367396/what-does-the-startupwmclass-field-of-a-desktop-file-represent/367851#367851 Simply adding "StartupWMClass=cura.real" allows Cura to behave like a normal application in all desktop environments that implement .desktop. Cura can now spawn children and in gnome in particular has options for spawning a New Window, rather than a runaway "Spawn more instances" as you click the launcher. This has been particularly annoying for me, as in a makerspace I attend where I have set up a dedicated Cura machine people have been opening several instances of Cura because of this flaw.
Cura
This is the new, shiny frontend for Cura. Check daid/LegacyCura for the legacy Cura that everyone knows and loves/hates. We re-worked the whole GUI code at Ultimaker, because the old code started to become unmaintainable.
Logging Issues
For crashes and similar issues, please attach the following information:
- (On Windows) The log as produced by dxdiag (start -> run -> dxdiag -> save output)
- The Cura GUI log file, located at
%APPDATA%\cura\<Cura version>\cura.log(Windows), or usuallyC:\Users\\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\cura\<Cura version>\cura.log$USER/Library/Application Support/cura/<Cura version>/cura.log(OSX)$USER/.local/share/cura/<Cura version>/cura.log(Ubuntu/Linux)
If the Cura user interface still starts, you can also reach this directory from the application menu in Help -> Show settings folder
For additional support, you could also ask in the #cura channel on FreeNode IRC. For help with development, there is also the #cura-dev channel.
Dependencies
- Uranium Cura is built on top of the Uranium framework.
- CuraEngine This will be needed at runtime to perform the actual slicing.
- fdm_materials Required to load a printer that has swappable material profiles.
- PySerial Only required for USB printing support.
- python-zeroconf Only required to detect mDNS-enabled printers.
Build scripts
Please checkout cura-build for detailed building instructions.
Running from Source
Please check our Wiki page for details about running Cura from source.
Plugins
Please check our Wiki page for details about creating and using plugins.
Supported printers
Please check our Wiki page for guidelines about adding support for new machines.
Configuring Cura
Please check out Wiki page about configuration options for developers.
Translating Cura
Please check out Wiki page about how to translate Cura into other languages.
License
Cura is released under the terms of the LGPLv3 or higher. A copy of this license should be included with the software.