[Interest] Qtcreator on ubuntu

[Felix morack]

it appears you are right and this is VBox releated. Wired, i could have
sworn i was working on my physical machine when this happened....i will
investigate when i get home.

thanks for your reply.


2014-07-25 9:46 GMT+02:00 Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>:

> Hi Felix,
>
> On 25 July 2014 15:21, Felix morack <felixover at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > just installed Qt 5.3.1 + QtCreator on my Ubuntu 14.04 x64 machine via
> the
> > online installer and was surprised by how poorly it works, or rather: not
> > works.
> >
> >
> > The first thing one notices when firing up QtCreator is a wired UI
> glitch,
> > that i have reported about ten times already  -  a year ago.
> >
> > The glitch causes part of the UI window to become top most somehow, see
> > here:
> >
> > https://i.imgur.com/TEDJGdI.png
>
> Are you running this in a virtual machine? VirtualBox is known to have
> OpenGL issues which affects Qt Creator's Welcome screen. This seems to
> have been fixed in VirtualBox 4.3.12:
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34964
>
> Disable the Welcome screen and see if it helps. In Qt Creator, go to
> "Help" -> "About Plugins..." and uncheck "Qt Creator" -> "Welcome" and
> restart.
>
>
> > The second thing is that terminating via the X in the window bar freezes
> my
> > entire system and i have to do a hard reset.
>
> I'm not sure about this issue. Do the previous steps help?
>
>
> > Between all that, the compilation errored out with missing libraries,
> even
> > after excessive fiddling with kits and compiler options. (Not that the
> > default GCC would have been detected automatically).
>
> You need to install the g++ compiler (which isn't included in GCC by
> default) and OpenGL development libraries (libgl1-mesa-dev).
>
>
> > A truly frustrating experience.
> >
> >
> > Do you need more testers for the linux/ubuntu department? If so, count me
> > in.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sze-Howe
>
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