> On Apr 23, 2018, at 17:45, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using latest Qt Creator 4.6.0 on Fedora where I run a Gnome Wayland > session (the default in newer Fedora releases). > > Out of curiosity, I poked around and was surprised to notice that Qt > Creator runs inside XWayland, despite Qt's Wayland support. So I tried > to run Qt Creator as a Wayland client, and failed spectacularly. > > Here is what I did: > > 1. Noticed that the wayland plaform plugins are not even installed: > Could not find them in either locations: > QtSDK/Tools/QtCreator/lib/Qt/plugins > QtSDK/5.10.1/gcc_64/plugins
Qt 5.11 will be the first version that actually comes with binaries for the wayland plugin. Qt Creator builds on our Qt binary packages. But actually this email is a good reminder for me to take care of https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-18914 . Otherwise I have no idea in what state the wayland support is. > 2. Cloned the QtWayland module, checked out the v5.10.1 tag, and > compiled it myself. Then installed it to > QtSDK/Tools/QtCreator/lib/Qt/plugins > > 3. Started Qt Creator with: > QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland ./qtcreator > > Result: > Qt Creator launches, but: > - text input doesn't work - making the app completely unusable > - rendering (especially in the code editor) is very flaky > - the window decoration looks out of place > - the mouse pointer is bigger inside the Qt Creator window than outside > - different icons are used compared to running it on X11 > > Are these all known issues? > I would have kind of expected it to just work out of the box, > considering Qt has had Wayland support for several years now, but seems > that this isn't the case unfortunately. Or am I doing it wrong? > > Thanks in advance for your answers! > Best regards, > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator -- Eike Ziller Principal Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Rudower Chaussee 13 D-12489 Berlin [email protected] http://qt.io Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
