Sometimes does not work?

mitu

Your emulator starts Paused, which can happen if the RetroArch windows goes out of focus or the menu is toggled or the pause key is pressed. Did you bind the pause button by any chance to one of the gamepad's buttons ? Do you have a keyboard attached ?

Are there some log files I can look into?

Enable verbose logging when starting a game, then open /dev/shm/runcommand.log.

brutalizer

@mitu Yes I have a keyboard and mouse. This is my Ubuntu PC.

Is it only a matter of pause? How do I unpause?
How do I enable verbose logging?

Jesus, but there are sooooo many different keys and buttons and what not to learn for a newbie. Sorry for my noob questions. :(

mitu

@brutalizer said in Sometimes does not work?:

Is it only a matter of pause? How do I unpause?

Press P on the keyboard, or Hotkey + P.

How do I enable verbose logging?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#launch-with-verbose-logging

brutalizer

@mitu
Thanks for your answer! It turned out that you were correct indeed. It was paused. I thought something was broken, but it was not.
However, I could not unpause by pressing P key as you suggested. For future reference, when someone asks the same question, here is what worked for me to unpause:
Just press the mouse button.

Thanx!

mitu

@brutalizer said in Sometimes does not work?:

Just press the mouse button.

That would indicate that the windows was un-focused after start. What window manager are you using on Ubuntu ?

brutalizer

@mitu It is the standard Ubuntu 20.10 window manager. I have not changed anything, it is a fresh install. Just a couple of days old.

donpablito

@brutalizer i have same problems

FRESH ubuntu 20.10 instalation
Fresh RETROPIE install
all emu start PAUSED and i can't Unpaused....

donpablito

@brutalizer I FOUND THE PROBLEM....

just we need press on MOUSSE button to put FOCUS on EMULATOR.

now the question is.... HOW can solve that? Im testing the system to use with ARCADE machine, i can't use mouse in the future.

brutalizer

@donpablito Maybe this pause problem is only with Ubuntu PC. You are using Ubuntu PC, right?

Clyde

@donpablito Ubuntu's desktop environment is called GNOME. It has three possible modes of window focusing: Click to Focus, Focus on Hover, and Secondary-Click.

You can change them in the supplemental tool GNOME Tweaks and see if one of them helps you with your problem. See these links how to install GNOME Tweaks graphically or in the command line. The latter link also shows you where the focus setting is located in the tool, and what exactly the three modes are doing.

donpablito

@brutalizer yes

donpablito

@clyde ok, i Will try... Im a Linux beginner user.
Thanks.

donpablito

@clyde
i solved , thank u!!!

Clyde

@donpablito Good to hear. How exactly did you fix it, so it may help others with the same problem?

donpablito

@clyde "focus on hover" using this choice...