Questions tagged [qt]
Qt is an application and UI framework. The K Desktop Environment is based on QT.
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Color banding in Qt OpenGL applications?
I'm running KDE on Wayland. I've noticed that some Qt applications that render using OpenGL show significant color banding, as if they're running with less-than-24-bit color. What could be causing ...
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How does BusCtl compare to QDBus?
busctl is from systemd, whereas dbus-qt6 (and dbus) are from qt6-qttools. These are very different projects, yet these tools perform the same purpose. Considering that both are fundamentally necessary ...
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VLC Not Adhering to Theme Correctly (KDE Plasma/Kvantum)
This theme (Gently) used to make the highlighted areas of VLC in the image below transparent, now it doesn't. Other applications are working fine (Kate, Dolphin, plasmoids, menus). I've been playing ...
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QT applications segfault under WAYLAND in GNOME
I cannot launch any QT application from gnome-shell because they segfault. e.g. torbrowser-launcher Jun 28 12:25:43 arch-xps systemd[1452]: Started Application launched by gnome-shell. Jun 28 12:25:43 ...
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Reset Python and QT5 installation for programming GUI in Python-QT
This, when trying to use pycrypto: warning: GMP or MPIR library not found; Not building Crypto.PublicKey._fastmath. src/MD2.c:31:10: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory ...
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Jupyter QtConsole GUI window ignores configured width and height
Below, two qtconsole instances, the first uses a font size of 14 pts, the second a font size of 12 pt — both use a width of 81 characters, As you can see, the actual widths in characters is quite ...
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How can I reliably block GUI-initiated system shutdown when systemd-inhibit only delays terminal shutdown commands?
I'm developing a desktop application using PySide6 for Linux, and I need to prevent or delay system shutdowns that are initiated from the graphical interface. I know that running systemd-inhibit --...
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Xorg not starting when invoked from Python
I'm creating a display manager (dm) in python, which waits to Xorg to start in order to run the GUI. Python (omitted unnecessary code like widgets and classes and functions) import os (more imports ...
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After upgrade to Plasma 6, some icons are blurry
I have a high DPI display. On X11, I scaled the display to 125% by forcing the font DPI to 120 (which is 96*1.25) as a workaround since Plasma's display scaling always caused slight blurriness of ...
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QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display within a service
I have a shell script that sets environment variables and runs an executable. It looks like this: export PATH=$PATH:/some/extra/binaries export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/some/extra/lib cd /...
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Qt-6-based program needs libxcb-cursor.so.0 - but I don't have a package for that
I'm trying to use a Qt6-based program, namely NVIDIA's Nsight Compute UI, on a machine running SLES 15 SP5 (SUSE Enterprise Linux 2015, service pack 5). No, I can't switch distributions, it's not my ...
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How to fix Lutris PCSX2 runner errors: libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0 missing and Qt_6.5 not found
When I run the PCSX2 runner in Lutris I get this error in the console and PCSX2 doesn't launch: PCSX2: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No ...
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nvidia nsight compute tool crashes when run as root
I am trying to profile a program that uses CUDA on Alma Linux 9. I've installed Nvidia's nsight compute tool and when I start to try and profile my program, I get an error: ==ERROR== ERR_NVGPUCTRPERM -...
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KDE applications configuration - how do they do it?
I've been tackling a project more seriously lately, a project that probably every Linux dev goes through at some point - dotfiles management. KDE (and it's applications) has a history of resisting ...
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Installing libqt4-dev in Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
I need Qt 4 for installing a software in debian bookworm. I believe I can install Qt 4 by 'sudo apt install libqt4-dev'. I wanted to know if there are any risks to it. I don't think that would be the ...