Monodevelop Stetic Designer Not Working

Question

Just installed monodevelop 5.0.1:
Mono 3.10.0 (tarball Mon Oct  6 20:46:04 UTC 2014) (64-bit)
    GTK+ 2.24.25 (Raleigh theme)
I have no DE and am using spectrwm WM.
monodevelop works generally, except for the stetic designer.
I'm trying to use gtk# and have the following packages installed:
mono 3.10.0-1
mono-addins 1.1-1
monodevelop 5.0.1-1
monodevelop-debugger-gdb 5.0.1-1
art-sharp 2.24.2-4
gconf-sharp 2.24.2-4
gconf-sharp-peditors 2.24.2-4
gnome-sharp 2.24.2-4
gnome-vfs-sharp 2.24.2-4
gtk-sharp-2 2.12.22-1
libgnome-sharp 2.24.2-4
I can't open it by clicking on the "designer" tab, only by opening the window in the "User Interface" branch of the solution tree. Once it's open, I can edit a window's properties, but I can't add any widgets to the window - drag and drop doesn't work.
I've tried running from the cmd line and had no messages.
A web search threw up a similar issue on a Linux Mint forum thread from four years ago, that had no response.
Any suggestions as to how I should debug this?
Edit: search result clarification.
Last edited by skanky (2014-11-08 22:33:28)

Answer 1

Your GTK2 theme may be something that you want to play with, but I've never experienced anything other that look & feel issues with mine (currently Clear Looks phenix).
We need to loby the maintainer of The official package to update that package.
The offical release is bound to have fewer (if any) issues. I'm running 5.7 from github without issue.
I've posted my PKGBUILD here.
pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qsq mono) | grep -Ei "(name|version)"
Name           : art-sharp
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : gconf-sharp
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : gconf-sharp-peditors
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : gnome-vfs-sharp
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : libgnome-sharp
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : mono
Version        : 3.10.0-1
Name           : mono-addins
Version        : 1.1-1
Name           : mono-tools
Version        : 3.10-1
Name           : monodevelop-git
Version        : r32430.4504f30-1
Name           : ttf-google-fonts
Version        : 20131228-1
Name           : webkit-sharp
Version        : 0.3-5
Name           : xsp
Version        : 3.0.11-1
Last edited by bartonc (2014-11-29 08:49:51)