run under linux

[megahacker91]

is there any way to run this app under linux ???

[svenhb]

It may work the same was as for lasergrbl:
It is easy to install LaserGRBL in linux using PlayOnLinux via this script

As alternative you can run LaserGRBL in linux with wine 5.0 and wine mono 4.9.4 (wineprefix 32-bit) and windowsdll gdiplus. read more

[metzger100]

Hello svenhb,
i tried to run grbl-plotter with ProtonGE. It starts without an issue after installing steam (Repo), ttf-ms-win11-auto (AUR) and gdiplus (Protontricks {update to cabextract 1.11 beacause of a bug in 1.10}) and gdiplus_winxp (Maybe not needed || Protontricks). I don't know which Windows fonts are needed but in ttf-ms-fonts (AUR) the required fonts are missing. I can't tell what package is needed on other distros. It doesn't work with wine but ProtonGE (Steam & Add a Non-Steam Game) is the way to go anyway, when running windows software. I didn't try to connect to the arduino yet but I expect it ot work, maybe there a some configuration of wine regedit needed. If anyone needs further help please ask.

ARCH Linux:

• Steam (Add a Non-Steam Game)
• Install GE-Proton https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom (Recommended to us ProtonUp-Qt (AUR: protonup-qt))
• Add a Non-Steam Game (select GRBL-Plotter_Setup.exe) execute and install it
• Change path to GRBL-Plotter.exe [replace {USER}]("/home/{USER}/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/4067479436/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GRBL-Plotter/GRBL-Plotter.exe") and the "Execute in" Path ("home/{USER}/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/4067479436/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GRBL-Plotter/")
• install Protontricks windowsdll gdiplus (AUR: protontricks)
• install ttf-ms-win11-auto (AUR)

[svenhb]

Did you try this?
https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=32363

[metzger100]

Thanks for the link.
There were some fonts missing. Installing https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ms-win11-auto fixed the font problem.
After installing it wine freezed but it worked flawlessly with GE-Proton8-27 by adding GRBL-Plotter as a non-Steam Game and and enabeling Steam Play.

[metzger100]

If you could tell me which fonts are needed by grbl plotter I could write a short guide for linux for your Readm (not like i did in this thread).
The main problem is, that every distro has different packages to install windows fonts and they not always contain the same fonts.

[svenhb]

I try to figure out, usually system fonts
Your error code probably pointed to this code line in virtual joystick code :
AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font

[svenhb]

Default font for the controls is
"Microsoft Sans Serif"

[metzger100]

Great. I will open a pull request, when I think everything works. I didn't use grbl plotter to control my cnc yet. I will test some stuff first to verify everything works.