#clion

Day 02

Mostly I was setting up my environment today.

I got a very simple c program running on one of my servers when I realized I would need a better way to step through my code.

The code compiles and runs but more advanced debugging it could be a challenge.

Brainstorming:

I could get better at using tmux and find a command line debugger.

I could develop my C code in Visual Studio as a C++ project, upload the final files to my server and then figure out any incompatibilities.

I could Google for a C language IDE that can run on Windows.

Today's Path Forward:

I’m going to explore the third option today and see how things go.

I’m trying out a program called CLion

I got CLion installed, activated the free trial and got it to SSH into my server.

The current problem I'm stuck on is that I can't get it to read from standard in. I don't know if this feature exists in CLion.

I tried dumping the source file as a text sample into stdin. I did it as a Program argument. This probably isn't the way CLion expects things. When I ran the debugger the code doesn't seem to be reading anything.

Another issue I'm thinking of is that the debugging features seem to be just a GUI for GDB.

I will probably have to get good with GDB anyway. I may be better off just using a tmux terminal with GDB in one of the panes. I'm not sure which solution (tmux or CLion) to explore.

Coming in at August 9th through 15th*

This banner will replace last year's on the discord server starting on August 1st

Special thanks for this year's species mascots to (left to right):

The Dryad mascot, Mila, from @stellarsoular

The Bisca mascot, Glasses, from @eckhartsprites

The Elgavan mascot, Syne Wayve, from @dicelibrarian

The Gemscine mascot, Swim, from @sekhmetson

The Clion mascot, Lj'Mosch, from (me, clions are mine actually. In fact this is the clion I drew a couple of times for fsw2021)

Fanspecies Week 2021

Day 4 - Crossover/AU

Yes this is a speciesswap AU but I have something planned for speciesswap day and I wanna draw more of this AU anyway.

some clions! specifically swaps of Queriy Specta, Maerix Ezilin, and Lorrin Hikara

クリオネは、ボンネットウオノクラゲとも呼ばれる、小型で透明な海洋生物です。一般にはクラゲとして知られていますが、実際にはクラゲとは異なるグループに属しています。

クリオネは、その神秘的な姿や生態から、海洋生物学や生態学の分野で重要な研究対象となっています。

Or: How Not To Remove Features.

Recently, I started setting my PC to light mode again, just because it's becoming easier on my eyes during daytime. Mostly that's just flipping a switch in the system settings, and most of my apps respond to that already. Some applications only support one mode, some need a switch flipped inside the app settings, no big deal.

CLion used to support responding to the system theme automatically, but support for that was apparently removed for Linux an update or two ago. I don't know why.

Now, since CLion doesn't do it automatically anymore, I'm trying to switch the IDE to light theme manually. But it doesn't let me. The button to switch themes is completely greyed out, and there's no other theme-related option in sight. A quick web search for the problem yields nothing useful. I know for a fact that CLion supports a light theme (heck, it even supports custom themes), so why isn't it letting me switch?

I search around more for how appearance settings are supposed to work, and eventually, on the "Run CLion for the first time" page, I find this unassuming image:

You might already have a suspicion where this is going from that image, and I do too at this point.

So to check if my idea is correct, I desperately search for the CLion configuration files. The location doesn't seem to be well documented on the internet, but I find them in ~/.config/JetBrains/CLion2023.2/options. Makes sense. Quickly grep for "Theme" in that folder, looks like the theme settings are in laf.xml.

Huh that is interesting, it still has the autodetect setting set to true.

Changing it to "false" manually fixes the issue. And I'm laughing out with my head in my hands at this being the actual fix.