18 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

Thanks for the heads up on this. Got rid of the Python one - failed to do what it should. Installed this and had a look. I would say OXIDE is very impressive and best of all a Linux program- bonus I can forget about WINE etc now. Although I will need to work through functionality process - that is if the scenery needs reordering. It found everything I had in the Scenery Folder and correctly identified them. Same with other parts of XPlane - so its functionality is basically the same as XOrganiser for Windows was. Need to find some help info or a manual for it. 

No manual as far as I know, but you can just ask in that thread.

Edited January 27Jan 27 by Bjoern

Bjoern - new version and updated today with improvements. Worked flawlessly out of the box so to speak. Very stylish presentation. Found manual on the Github repositary for the program. Does everything that X Organiser did and more but only for Linux - brilliant!

Now to sit back and enjoy the show so to speak. 

Not sure why probably me cleaning up the installation on the drive or rethinking mnt drive permissions or could be the new NVIDIA  GPU driver - Graphics are crisp clear and very nice and i have an even higher increase in what I would call the idle FPS for the sim running - now seeing close to 70 FPS as standard. Unless of course it is a Thranda and the most recent releases of the Bonanza,  in which case the latest F33 Bonanza is a serious GPU hog unlike all the others it is the only installed aircraft that results in a "tone down the texture settings yours are too high and cannot be run! Even the complex Tollis A320 or the Felis B747-200 will give me 60FPS plus not the Thranda F33. 

Edited January 28Jan 28 by coastaldriver

11 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

Bjoern - new version and updated today with improvements. Worked flawlessly out of the box so to speak. Very stylish presentation. Found manual on the Github repositary for the program. Does everything that X Organiser did and more but only for Linux - brilliant!

Best of all: Has Mac and Windows releases and is free.

 

11 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

Not sure why probably me cleaning up the installation on the drive or rethinking mnt drive permissions or could be the new NVIDIA  GPU driver - Graphics are crisp clear and very nice and i have an even higher increase in what I would call the idle FPS for the sim running - now seeing close to 70 FPS as standard. Unless of course it is a Thranda and the most recent releases of the Bonanza,  in which case the latest F33 Bonanza is a serious GPU hog unlike all the others it is the only installed aircraft that results in a "tone down the texture settings yours are too high and cannot be run! Even the complex Tollis A320 or the Felis B747-200 will give me 60FPS plus not the Thranda F33. 

While I do not own any of Thranda's XP12 aircraft, I think they've implemented a "Disable JIT" setting somewhere in their configuration screen (alternatively, set "DisableJit" to 1 in manifest.json). This will disable compilation of SASL scripts every frame and usually improves FPS a lot. Why each and every Lua plugin has just in time compilation enabled by default is a mystery to me, as it does not have a single benefit.

So, after testing organizer.py, I also tried x-Addon-Oxide. Here too, the sorting wasn't quite right in the end.

It's probably me; I'm a custom scenery junkie. Besides various payware airports, I have countless heliports worldwide. Then there's Alpine and Himalayan scenery with its own mesh. Plus, almost complete Ortho4xp coverage of Europe. The rest of the world is covered with AutoOrtho. Of course, there are also the necessary libraries. For Germany, I have a ton of VFR scenery.

The Python script and Oxide both have problems with this, as they sometimes recognize libraries as scenery and vice versa. And with Oxide, manually re-sorting is much more cumbersome compared to XOrganizer.

That's why I spent today working with Wine and XOrganizer. After I managed to install dotnet48, getting XOrganizer running was no problem.

I started using Linux back in win xp days when Microsoft began to force auto updates in the middle of me using my computer with no ability to prevent it. Running Xplane under Linux has always been my choice for the simple reason that I decide when my OS is updated, Xplane run super smooth and it never crash on me. Even with terrible framerate in the low 20s, Xplane is still smooth and enjoyable. Running any verson of MS Flightsimulator has always been a microstutter nighmare for me, going back as far as MSFS version 5 days (1993 I think).