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In source file FreeFileSync_11.12_Source.zip (sha1sum cfdd7e6f894394be6171fa4391456776c6468a36), file FreeFileSync/Source/afs/sftp.cpp is different from version 11.11. I get a compilation error: g++-10 -std=c++2a -pipe -DWXINTL_NO_GETTEXT_MACRO -I../.. -I../../zenXml -include "zen/i18n.h" ...

Technically the tilde ~ character is expanded by the shell (that is, /bin/sh or /bin/bash or similar) and not an official, reusable way to access your home directory. What would be better is to use environment variable $HOME (which is what the shell expands ~ to), and if that is unset, to determine ...

I'm intrigued that you want to run this in WSL. Would installing the Windows version of FreeFileSync get you what you want? If you really insist on installing FreeFileSync in Ubuntu in WSL, you can manually extract the contents of the .run file with 7za and manually set up the related components. 7z...

Can you share all the packages with versio number on you system that have been updated since the time FreeFileSync started crashing? Chances are this is a problem with one of the dependency libraries like libgtk.

Zenju has replied in other threads on this forum that the email notification feature uses some special web service he has subscribed to. Such a web service would be used with a generic https call, and that web service would then generate an email.

Hm, what I am interested in is if a donator who gets the version of FreeFileSync with extra features, also gets a copy of the source code? It appears FreeFileSync is licensed under the GPLv3, which requires that whoever gets the binary is also allowed to receive a copy of the source code that corres...

I agree with Zenju. For users who just want FreeFileSync to work, the installer is ideal. For power users who want to do things manually, it's all available to them.

The .run (as of 11.6 was the last time I checked) can be decompressed with 7z or 7za and you can place the files where you want.

If the Flatpak version operates how you want it to, there should be no reason to do anything different. I suppose that yes, you could put the value of the Exec= into the cron job. The @@ %F @@ of course is the placeholder for the filename of the ffs_batch file. I have no clue if flatpak will work wh...

I don't know flatpak specifics, but you could start with a generic command from a terminal window: which FreeFileSync It's possible the binary is named FreeFileSync.bin. which FreeFileSync.bin Some builds have the architecture as part of the filename, so FreeFileSync_x86_64 or similar. If any "...

Wow, I think one of my syncs (on Devuan GNU+Linux) the other day also had a malfunction after finishing. The little window that announces status showed "Completed" in the titlebar, but the main part of this window was completely blank. Is that what happened to you? There was no "Close...

My use cases are probably all pretty simple, so I think they're all stable.

But 10.24 was the last version that kept the classic "flat" grid view we used to have.

The way most current desktop environments (including Xfce, which is a defining feature of Xubuntu) handles the "recycle bin" behavior is to move any "deleted" files to a directory on the original filesystem (so same hard disk, basically), named .Trash-1000 (where 1000 is your uid...

Yes, the .run file is a x86_64 binary, but it also contains zipped contents that unzip or 7zip (7za) should be able to extract. 7za x FreeFileSync_11.7.run The main zip file that used to be the main downloadable asset is now here to use. And in the source zip file, all the good stuff is in subdirect...

On your ssh session, you can make sure the DISPLAY variable was set for you by ssh. echo $DISPLAY Mine tends to look like "localhost:10.0". It's possible the system running your ssh client is not running an X server, or you need to open the firewall? It looks like "TTSSH" is Tera...

Some environments set an "alternative" (as in the Debian alternatives mechanism) named x-terminal-emulator. That is one way a user can set his preferred terminal emulator. But I don't know if that will run qterminal correctly with a command immediately running inside it.

I read somewhere probably a year ago about how some Linux file managers were going to disable the ability to double-click a .desktop file in a file manager and cause it to run. Linux Mint 19.3 is about the target timeframe, but doesn't appear to use the file manager in question (https://gitlab.gnome...

I misread your first post; I thought you had not provided any output of "ip a." I'm guessing Zenju will fix his tool to handle the previously unexpected input of "eth0@if83" which is a style of network card name I've never seen before, and I'm guessing he hasn't either. For our e...

FreeFileSync tends to run third-party programs by running in basically the same manner that you call them from the command line. The fact that this error message says to check "ip a" means that it is probably trying to run "ip a" (short for "ip address") which depends o...

I suppose that while colons are acceptable on common Linux filesystems, Linux does use colons for path separators, like in the environment variable PATH. I highly, highly recommend you avoid using colons in filenames. (Spaces also are technically allowed but cause all sorts of unamusing problems.)

I was expecting (hah) that expect could do what you want, but I hardly ever use it so I didn't want to grapple that task. The .run file can be extracted to get the tar.gz like before.

It is fairly easy for users to set up in their PATH variable the path ~/bin or ~/.local/bin. That would look like: export PATH=~/bin:~/.local/bin:$PATH That might already be the case on a lot of Linux distros. You can check your current PATH with: echo $PATH Zenju, perhaps you could whip up an insta...

The .run file is extractable with 7-zip. (/usr/bin/7z or /usr/bin/7za from p7-zip or p7zip-full), and inside it is a .tar.gz which appears to be the traditional file.

Flatpak, like Snap and AppImage, is a decent way to get an application deployed to disparate GNU/Linux systems. Everybody's got different versions of glibc and other major dependencies, and some programs need very certain versions of key libraries, so a Flatpak bundles all the dependencies together....

The screenshots from the main page show a list of recently-used sync configs: The upper-left part of this default layout is the list of recently-used sync files. You select one, and then click the "synchronize" button in the upper right. I suppose if you wanted to make a single-use icon ou...

Could you write a batch file that calls FreeFileSync with the right flags and parameters, and then configure your operating system to run that batch file based on an OSC signal?

Would xvfb-run be a viable option? I haven't ever tried it myself, but using xvfb could be a lot simpler than most of that.
I think you could try As the sole contents of your script.

Also, nice theming improvements! I guess I use generic themes that have not incurred a need to fix FreeFileSync. Next FreeFileSync version or rebuild (I do that infrequently, between FFS versions), I'll attempt to add your theme patch to my list.

Some of my patches started as the results of some sed commands. So far, all the Debian package examples I've seen store their changes as actual diff files and they don't use bare commands like sed in the build rules if they can help it. Debuild tends to undo its patches to the source (Debian tends t...

I am surprised that even ArchLinux does not include whatever version of wxWidgets that Zenju uses. But then again, in this last release (11.4), he started using features I could not even find in the Internet documentation of wxWidgets. Check out the patches that I use, including, particularly, rever...