I don’t know when this started, just found it in V8 and it’s still there in V9: after doing an ERC or DRC and when I press the Delete All Markers button, both PCB Editor and Schematic Editor will go one by one “deleting” the markers, a complete waste of time!
how can I disable this nonsense?
It doesn’t happen on my system . . . so I can’t help you. Are you running Mac ? Windows ? Linux ? Perhaps if you gave your full version info maybe someone else might be able to help with your “nonsense”.
you are right, here it is:
Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64
Version: 9.0.0, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.6
FreeType 2.13.3
HarfBuzz 9.0.0
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.11.1 OpenSSL/3.3.3 zlib/1.3.1 libidn2/2.3.7 libpsl/0.21.5 nghttp2/1.64.0
Platform: Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime), 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, KDE, wayland
OpenGL: AMD, AMD Radeon RX 460 Graphics (radeonsi, polaris11, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.60, 6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64), 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.3.4 (git-769e51468b)
Build Info:
Date: Feb 21 2025 22:29:54
wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.87.0
OCC: 7.9.0
Curl: 8.11.1
ngspice: 44.2
Compiler: GCC 14.2.0 with C++ ABI 1019
KICAD_IPC_API=ON
Locale:
Lang:
Enc: UTF-8
Num: 1234.5
Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)
when I installed V9 I keep the preferences from V8, maybe I should delete all that…?
I’ve only used flatpak a few times. I’m a little murky on it but I thought it ran in its’ own little bubble? Is it also capable of storing/using things in the traditional .config location?
I opened an issue a few months ago that sounds a lot like this. It’s tagged as fixed in 8.0.9, so it wouldn’t be surprising if you’re running an earlier v8 release.
This fix was also tagged for cherry-picking into v9. Maybe that didn’t happen, or didn’t make it into the initial v9 release?
@Seth_h or other devs?
Yes, of course flatpaks have access to the user’s home directories and KiCad’s config is in ~/.config/kicad/<version>. They would be useless if they could not modify a user’s files, e.g. an editor supplied as a flatpak.
there is a button in the preferences dialog to open the preferences directory, this one opens .var/app/org.kicad.KiCad/config/kicad/9.0
V8 was in .config/kicad/V8.0 when it was installed from Fedora repos, but there it was also a V8.0 in the location stated above, so it seems like the Flatpack thing likes that style
I just delete all of them (with Kicad closed), open Kicad again, open my project, did ERC, delete markers and they go away immediately, DRC the same
So yes, it might have been some inherited preferences from older versions
I’ll mark this as solved
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