[Interest] multiple displaying backends on OS X?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Sun Jan 25 21:59:32 CET 2015


On Sunday 25 January 2015 18:49:47 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Sunday January 25 2015 13:32:12 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Yes, this was one of the design goals for Qt 5: all of the displaying is
> > done via a plugin, which is selected at runtime.
> 
> Interesting! But having having that as a design goal doesn't mean the
> X11/xcb plugin is available or supportd on all systems where it could
> possibly be of use, or is it? Is there documentation how to build this
> plugin on systems where it's not the default?

It requires that the dependent libs be installed. Please consult your system's 
documentation on how to install libxcb and stuff.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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