How you gonna get windows through the windows.:-D On 2014-04-25 13:17, Schooner wrote: >> You are not the only one >> >> The new Qt5 is a feat of complete s**t >> >> I have been tearing my hair out for weeks trying to get it to install > > > OK I have to apologise (mostly) to Qt5 > I have finally found the problem. > > Qt5 is incompatable with icewm (window manager). > > Apps launched through it cannot get the current X server. > > There is a bug report > http://sourceforge.net/p/icewm/bugs/909/ > which says it is fixed, but it is not, I just built from sources and > still does not work > > Qt5 obviously does something different regards X access to all previous > versions, which causes problems > > I have used icewm for upwards of 15 years, it is the first thing I > install on a new system. > It is a very fast light wm, great pity it cant be used. > > I only discovered this because my user uses lightdm by default and I > logged in without switching to icewm. > Having previously hung without any error, Qt5 now ran. > > When I had built and installed by download, I probably just used the > defaults as well, as I was just doing that one thing in a terminal then > leaving it to complete. > > So finally I can get to look at Alex's QtQuickVcp without wanting to > throw something out of the window:-P > > regards > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform > Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software > Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready > Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers >
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