Discussion of article "MetaTrader 5 on Linux" - page 20

[paul3000]

Metatrader 5 under Linux (Wine 7) works in principle without any restrictions.

I have only noticed 2 things that I have not yet been able to fix:

1. the shortcuts (+ and -) for the zoom in the chart do not work. Zoom-out works undocumented with "Ü". Unfortunately I have not found anything for zoom-in. If anyone has a workaround for this, I would be very pleased.

2. in the meta editor, the last parameter or function info remains in the small yellow window until the editor is closed again.

[Carl Schreiber]

Please no double posts - I have deleted the other post.

[Андрей П.]

You don't have to suffer at all. All the programs I need, including metatrader, 4 and 5, work through portproton. Get it here https://portwine-linux.ru/port-proton-linux/

[Ugvadi]

Installed Metatraider 5 without problems on Arch Linix via wine staging from the official Arch repository, pulled in fonts via winetricks and in general everything works well. The only annoying thing is when starting the sound signal for some reason crackles in the speaker. Has anyone encountered this ? Maybe some library to slip ?)

After a few days of study all the same achieved the external similarity with Windows, everything looks just as nice and fixed the problem with the sound. It was necessary to specify wine that we use alsa. It remains to figure out how to start the"Strategy Tester" (on Win it opened automatically, but here it does not)

[Cristian Eriksson]

I was trying to keep the guide as simple as possible and I've never had a problem with Fedora running an old version of wine.
I think they renew their repository at least once per half year?
But of course for those that want bleeding edge, it's a good tip.

[Daniel_San]

I can install MT5 with this tutorial: https://www.metatrader5.com/en/terminal/help/start_advanced/install_linux

Unfortunately I cannot get my own indicators to be recognized by the program at all.

I am in the right directory and have refreshed and even restarted the program and PC.

On windows they are working fine.

Any ideas what could be wrong here?

[Maximilian Canez]

I installed MT5 using the command line as indicated. It worked, but it only took FOREX charts.

Now I've contracted my broker, BTG, to use it on Linux with Wine.

Even when I log in to my BTG account, I can't get a BMF/BOVESPA signal. How do I uninstall the version of MT5 that was installed using the command line?

Thank you.

[Ricardo Almeida Branco]

Maximilian Canez charts.

Now I've contracted my broker, BTG, to use it on Linux with Wine.

Even when I log in to my BTG account, I can't get a BMF/BOVESPA signal. How do I uninstall the version of MT5 that was installed using the command line?

Thank you.

Hi, are you sure you've connected to the Brazilian broker? Check the journal tab for connection information.

Abs.

[Wasin Thonkaew]

Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies

Discussion of article "MetaTrader 5 on Linux"

peep, 2019.06.15 14:50

Yes, color dialogue doesn't work properly in Linux / Wine ( last dev version staging 4.10 64bit) and verification test on Wine stable version 3.0.1 and 4.0.1 64bit (PlayOnLinux) with the same result.

The strange thing is that the color dialog works normal in all simple default indicator Moving Average, Ichimoku kinko hyo,etc., which don't have the classic tabs "Input Parameters" and "Colors" - In these, it does not work, but the change color using the keyboard arrow works, but you don't see thecolor you are changing.. It is the only problem with Metatrader 5 that I have encountered in Wine for a year when using it on Linux, surprisingly Strategy tester MT5 is much faster in Linux/Wine than in Windows 10. The Color dialogue also works normally when change the chart colors. The problem occurs in Indicators/Experts/Scriptes on the tabs "Inputs parameters", "Color" and in the Strategy tester.

If the annoying problem with the color dialog was fixed, the MT5 functionality on Linux would be perfect. Everything else works normally, including "Market".

From the fact that the color dialog works elsewhere, one can assume with a high degree of certainty that the little bug is somewhere in the MT5 source code.

Same for me about color dialogue didn't show up via "Inputs" tab. But for me, latest MT5 build 3521 it's wine 7.0 (stable) on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.

3 things didn't work for me.

1. Color selection via "Inputs" tab as quoted above.

2. New reports via Alt+E will show nothing on the window screen. Debug log as attached.

3. OpenCL cannot find my GPU (RX 570 AMD) same as this thread. Only detect CPU if installed driver properly (for me via RoCm).

Edit
4. A comment tooltip for input variable will be left hanging there as seen in the image below. Only way to cure this is to close the editing file, and reopen it.

To reproduce (use example from image), move cursor to end of inp_london_close_open_end_minute then delete e, then enter e. IDE will show a comment tooltip at the location
wherever mouse cursor is at. Now it will be left hanging there.

[Modular Economy]

I also have  a queer issue.. 

I got MT4 running perfectly fine on an older PC with ubuntu installation, been coding EA there for quite a long while.

When I install MT4 to Debian LXDE (using dietpi) on a higher end PC, MT4 takes a long while to start.. even when closing a chart takes around 2-3 minutes. I've tried everything from limiting the bar, to making sure OpenGL works. I tried both MT4 linux sources, for ubuntu & debian, still no luck.  Any ideas where I gone wrong?