[Qt-creator] How do you run Qt Creator on Wayland?

[timur.kristof at gmail.com]

Hi Alexey,

Are you sure it is running as a Wayland client and not under XWayland?

On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 11:22 +0300, Alexey Min wrote:
> I'm using Qt Creator (compiled manually with system Qt 5.9) with
> Plasma 5 Wayland session with no problems.
> Except one, multi-sequence hokeys don't work (like "Git commit"
> Alt+G, Alt+C)
> 
> 2018-04-23 18:45 GMT+03:00  <timur.kristof at gmail.com>:
> > 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
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
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