Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
Hi. Anyone having trouble with window focus after starting APP ? I am running Mint 19.3 with Mate desktop - fully updated. Quite often (very often actually) after I start APP the "click to focus" stops working and cannot get focus on terminal, browsers etc. Also cannot close windows or bring them to the foreground etc. Whole desktop screwed.
Fix 1. Login to console and kill -9 APP. seems to fix.
Fix 2. kill desktop and start again.
Fix 3. Go to panel and try to minimise then unminimise windows.
This happened also on previous APP versions. Currently running APP v. 1.082
As long as I stay in APP then everything fine until I want to bring up other terminals/windows.
Some mismatch between graphic libraries I presume.
Anyone got a less intrusive fix ?
Thanks.
Nick
Interesting, my main machine is running the latest Linux Mint and I'm not having this issue. What steps do reproduce this for you? Just starting up and trying to select the main window?
Vincent - are you using Cinnamon desktop ? I am using Mate since Cinnamon used to
create other issues with other software. Maybe because the PC has been upgraded
many times and have some dodgy libraries lurking around. Just wondered if anyone else had similar issue. If not then some software issue with my desktop, I have all sorts of stuff installed over the years which you wont have if you installed a fresh clean copy.
It seems to happen randomnly. Sometimes run APP and close it and no problem, other times desktop "stuck". Doesn't happen with any other software I use and is definitely
a problem when I use APP.
Yes Cinnamon. I've had good luck with it tbh, no issues with all kinds of software (which impressed me to the point I switched to Linux, after years not having used it). 🙂 I do keep a rather clean system and it is about year old now. So maybe an issue that got introduced at your site, but that's hard to say. Can you test on maybe a virtual machine running a fresh Linux Mint desktop? Just as an idea?
It is weird this only happens with APP though, do you have any other Java based software?
I have another PC with Mint 20, but it is a bit of a pain to use as it is headless and
in another location.
Might give it a try at some stage and let you know if it has issues as well.
