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gt

9 May 2012 9 May '12

7:19 a.m.

Hey guys I am facing a strange issue. All qt applications have become black, making them impossible to use. Here's an example showing vlc and avidemux-qt https://imgur.com/a/PR5vH Anyone else facing this issue? The closest i found someone with a similar problem is: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/next-kde-4-8-2-regress... But the guy is using kde, and i am using dwm + xf86-video-intel

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Diep Pham Van

9 May 9 May

8:28 a.m.

I have same problem before, you must install libgnomeui and change GUI style in qtconfig. On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:49:48PM +0530, gt wrote:

Hey guys

I am facing a strange issue. All qt applications have become black, making them impossible to use.

Here's an example showing vlc and avidemux-qt

https://imgur.com/a/PR5vH

Anyone else facing this issue? The closest i found someone with a similar problem is:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/next-kde-4-8-2-regress...

But the guy is using kde, and i am using dwm + xf86-video-intel

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gt

9:04 a.m.

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:28:42PM +0700, Diep Pham Van wrote:

I have same problem before, you must install libgnomeui and change GUI style in qtconfig.

I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine in the meantime. Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff, gvfs, udisks2 etc. Isn't there some other solution?

Paul Gideon Dann

9:20 a.m.

On Wednesday 09 May 2012 14:34:27 gt wrote:

Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff, gvfs, udisks2 etc. Isn't there some other solution?

Qt comes with qtconfig. Have you tried that already? Paul

gt

9:39 a.m.

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:20:13AM +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:

On Wednesday 09 May 2012 14:34:27 gt wrote:

...
Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff, gvfs, udisks2 etc. Isn't there some other solution?

Qt comes with qtconfig. Have you tried that already?

Yes, tried it, as mentioned by Diep Pham Van. But, it didn't matter whatever style i tried. I also tried downgrading to qt 4.8.0-6, but that too didn't make a difference.

CodeVision

9:31 a.m.

On Wed, 9 May 2012 14:34:27 +0530 gt wrote:

I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine in the meantime.

Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff, gvfs, udisks2 etc. Isn't there some other solution?

From your picture and description, the problem you have seems similar to the problem I had a while ago. If the error message you get when you run e.g. VLC from the command line is: QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme. I reckon its the same problem. As far as I know, there's no real solution for it, just a few workarounds. I solved it by installing 'gconf' [1] which has a lot less dependencies than libgnomeui. If you are not running gnome, you might also have to run: gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme your_theme_name For more information you can look in this forum thread [2], where I also got this solution from. Hope it helps. [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gconf/ or http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/gconf/ [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=775685

gt

9:51 a.m.

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:31:08AM +0200, CodeVision wrote:

On Wed, 9 May 2012 14:34:27 +0530 gt wrote:

...
I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine in the meantime.

Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff, gvfs, udisks2 etc. Isn't there some other solution?

From your picture and description, the problem you have seems similar to the problem I had a while ago. If the error message you get when you run e.g. VLC from the command line is:

QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme.

I reckon its the same problem. As far as I know, there's no real solution for it, just a few workarounds. I solved it by installing 'gconf' [1] which has a lot less dependencies than libgnomeui. If you are not running gnome, you might also have to run:

gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme your_theme_name

For more information you can look in this forum thread [2], where I also got this solution from.

Hope it helps.

[1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gconf/ or http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/gconf/ [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=775685

Nope my problem was different. Thanks for your help, but i finally found a solution on the forums itself. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93325 The last post by ecmel solves the problem for me. I had recently borrowed .Xresources colours from someone on the forums, which were like *.background: *.foreground: ... Changing them to urxvt.background, i.e., removing the wildcard solved the problem. Who would have thought that .Xresources would be accessed by qt, but apparently it is. Thanks to all for the help.

Paul Gideon Dann

9:51 a.m.

On Wednesday 09 May 2012 11:31:08 CodeVision wrote:

QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme.

I reckon its the same problem. As far as I know, there's no real solution for it, just a few workarounds. I solved it by installing 'gconf' [1] which has a lot less dependencies than libgnomeui. If you are not running gnome, you might also have to run:

gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme your_theme_name

Strange; I wouldn't have thought the problem was the GTK theme. If it is, though, I've had gtk-chtheme hanging around, which depends only on gtk2. Paul

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