On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 07:56:54PM -0700, Anindya Mukherjee wrote: > Hi, > > Qutebrowser has a bug on OpenBSD which causes the prefers-color-scheme > setting to not work correctly (e.g., test sites show that it is not > supported, etc.). The problem is a hard-coded library filename for > libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5 in > /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/qutebrowser/misc/elf.py. I worked > with The-Compiler and a fix has been committed upstream: > https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/eb6f1cf9898cb431af9d2812ec40f811e37f57f0 > Would it be possible to backport this into the current port? I have > tested the patch on my system and it fixes the issue. To test, simply > set colors.webpage.preferred_color_scheme = dark and load > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/. It will be displayed using the light > scheme without this fix, regardless of the above setting. > > OTOH 2.2 is not too far off and updating to that won't need maintaining > a patch. I'm not sure what is the best way to proceed. > > Regards, > Anindya
Incidentally, setting QUTE_DARKMODE_VARIANT=qt_515_2 also works around the bug by forcing the library version to what we know is the correct one for OpenBSD.
