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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-help] Re: No board window in pcb
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Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:44:31 -0400
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"Chris Fisichella (christopher DOT j DOT fisichella AT gmail DOT com) [via
> I am working through the gEDA tutorial. gschem works, gsch2pcb works,
> and when I started pcb, I noticed the "CAD" window was blank.

CAD window?  You mean the main drawing window?

> Everything else was there, the menu bars, the tools on the left, and
> the tools on the bottom.

pcb doesn't have tools on the bottom, just on the left (see the image on
the left side of http://pcb.geda-project.org/) and sometimes a toolbar
under the menu bar.

Include the Window->About version, too.

> I cannot, however, find documentation on the log file for pcb. I
> checked in ~/.gEDA, and did not find anything. Do any of you know how

~/.gEDA is for gschem et al; pcb prints to stdout or to the log window
(Window->Message Log).

> to troubleshoot what appears to be a pcb display issue?

Posting a link to a screenshot might help, too.

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