qt5 apps in antiX

[Adrian]

Good find. So... why did it work in MX?

[dolphin_oracle]

Good find. So... why did it work in MX?

because in MX the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable is set by XFCE to ..... XFCE. and qt5 libraries are built to handle that. antiX doesn't set the variable at all. I chose LXDE because I figured it was predefined and because due to their design philosophy, it is unlikely to break anything.

so someone got "cute" with where they thought qt apps would get run.

[Paul..]

har, har...no pun intended...nice find, DO!

[Stevo]

Does AntiX have that same setting in ~/.config/.Trolltech.conf to have Qt applications use the GTK theming as we have in MX? It's set by the same file in /etc/skel.

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[Qt]
style=GTK+

I remember we added that to solve a similar Qt theming problem in MX.

[dolphin_oracle]

Does AntiX have that same setting in ~/.config/.Trolltech.conf to have Qt applications use the GTK theming as we have in MX? It's set by the same file in /etc/skel.

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[Qt]
style=GTK+

I remember we added that to solve a similar Qt theming problem in MX.

yeah...that works for qt4 apps, but not for qt5 apps.

[Stevo]

Does AntiX have that same setting in ~/.config/.Trolltech.conf to have Qt applications use the GTK theming as we have in MX? It's set by the same file in /etc/skel.

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[Qt]
style=GTK+

I remember we added that to solve a similar Qt theming problem in MX.

yeah...that works for qt4 apps, but not for qt5 apps.

OK. I know that the Qt 5 5.3.2 in Jessie doesn't support using non-builtin Qt themes (have to have at least 5.4 for that to work, thus qt5ct can be built on our Qt 5 but doesn't work), which is one of the reasons I prefer to build backported applications against Qt 4 instead of 5 if they support it. (qBitorrent, SMPlayer, etc) Debian's upstream policy is to always build against Qt 5 if there's a choice.

I have an OBS repo someplace with a backported Qt 5 5.5 and the qt5 configuration tool, and when I upgraded a test MX 15 install from it, the tool then started working.

I don't know it the MX apps still support Qt 4...

[Adrian]

I don't know it the MX apps still support Qt 4...

There are some slight variations, I don't test anymore against Qt4, most programs might compile or need minor code edits, but since I will try to use some Qt5 features I don't think it's a good idea to get stuck in the past.

[antiX-Dave]

What does that variable need to say?
For instance can we put the desktop session code in there and have the same result?

[Jerry3904]

I don't think it's a good idea to get stuck in the past

No politics...

[timkb4cq]

It appears that the supported values are these.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ ... t/apb.html
With the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable having been created to facilitate OnlyShowIn menu entries.