I've never used ltspice / circuit simulators before; though based onseeing posts to the group from various people seems it's something Imight find useful (noting, of course, this is a hobby rather thansomething I get paid for).Looked it up, and seems ltspice is a windows/mac application, whereasthe native equivalent on linux would be ngspice. To avoid starting withone and switching because it's "bad" later on; has anyone usedngspice and found it a decent alternative to ltspice?

The difficulty with the LTspice interface is that it uses "verb" mode instead of "noun" mode. In other words, you need to select the action and then the object, instead of the object and then the action. This differs from how a lot of other programs work. Also LTspice doesn't do schematics for PCB Layout, so you are concurrently using another schematic layout program which is a pain. I had changed LTspice's hotkeys to match Altium's to avoid hitting the wrong keys.

Spice Simulators - ngspice v. ltspice ?

Dec 21, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 23 Replies

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Dan Purgert 2 years ago

Just following-up to myself to tie up the loose ends a bit -- thanks to everyone giving their input; sounds like the general consensus is LTSpice-on-WINE, so that's the route I'm gonna attempt to take post-Christmas.

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Uwe Bonnes 2 years ago

While I use Ltspice with wine, input windows, e.g. to change the value of some device, often loose focus. Simple clicking the input windows does not bring back focus. To get back focus, I must click some window unrelated to Wine/Ltspice and then click the iput windows. This happens on several system.

Anybody else has this problem?

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Phil Hobbs 2 years ago

The only thing I notice is that you have to go ctl-enter to get a newline in a dialogue box, rather than ctl-m.

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Phil Hobbs

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Jeroen Belleman 2 years ago

I get that sometimes, but it doesn't seem to be related to LTspice or wine. I think it's a window manager bug. I use xfce. On an older machine, running older versions of everything, this never happened.

It's irritating, but not enough to invest the time needed to find and fix it. Still, damn 'upgrades'.

Jeroen Belleman

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