Problems with options

[Al Arduengo]

Hi all,

I wrote earlier about problems with my options staying persistent.  I have 
discovered several issues along this line that I wanted to ask about.

These descriptions may sound confusing and it is because I cannot seem to 
find a repeatable pattern of events other than options are not being 
recognized each time I start electric and I have problems with simulations.

1.  It seems that if I run ALS to simulate my schematic, closing the 
waveform window leaves something resident such that when I leave Electric 
and restart it later, trying to run a sim again results in errors about not 
being able to find a module, or no vhdl being found.  If I make some change 
to the circuit and re-save, it stops the simulator and I can usually get it 
running again correctly.  I tried using the 'U' key in the waveform window 
but it has no effect.  Is there a way to STOP the simulator as opposed to 
simply killing the window?  It is somewhat frustrating when I make changes 
to the circuit and upon restarting the sim to find that if it does start, 
the signal names are not updated with the schematic changes and I am 
presented with the same waveform window as the earlier sim run.

2.  I compiled electric 6.07 to include irsim support, but even though I 
set ALS to be the default and saved my options, every time I restart 
electric I find that irsim is once again the default simulator.  Is this a 
known problem or is it me?

3.  Along the same lines as #2, I set my number base for busses to 16 as 
opposed to the default 10, but everytime I get a sim running I find that 
the base is once again 10.

4.  Colors do not stay in effect.  I like black background colors and I can 
set them in the schematic window, but as soon as I open a different view 
like vhdl, simulator, etc, everything goes back to the default colors.  If 
I save options with black background and exit electric, it will come up 
using the black background, but as soon as I open another window, bam! back 
to default.


I am using linux with kernel 2.4.18 on a Thinkpad600 with 192M ram and a 4G 
hdd.  Electric 6.07 is compiled with QT and IRSIM builtin.  Currently I am 
trying out KDE as my window manager but I have several others on board as well.

Thanks for any advice.

-Al Arduengo