Getting QT apps running.

[Dietmar Winkler]

Hi,

so I finally spend some time again on this. Since I could not get the
menus to work under standard Ubuntu Unity 16.04 I thought maybe it's
not the snap but something that does not agree within the desktop
manager.

So I simply installed ubuntu-mate-desktop and logged into standard mate.

Then I rebuild the IPE application with three variants of plugs. I.e., in

https://github.com/dietmarw/snaps/blob/master/ipe/snapcraft.yaml#L59

With:
1.   plugs: [x11, home]
2.   plugs: [unity7, home]
3.   plugs: [x11, unity7, home]

The result? ALL of those build worked flawlessly under Ubuntu Mate
whilst under standard Ubuntu Unity (on the very same machine I get:

1.   plugs: [x11, home]    > ipe doesn't launch but also no errors in
the terminal
2.   plugs: [unity7, home] > ipe launches without menu
3.   plugs: [x11, unity7, home]  > ipe launches without menu

Since ipe doesn't use any unity speciific stuff the right plug should
actually be simply x11 (and as the FAQ pointed out
https://github.com/otfried/ipe-wiki/wiki/FAQ#ipe-doesnt-work-correctly-on-ubuntu
even when run natively one needs to remove the appmenu-qt5 package to
get the menu).

Question that still stands is why although appmenu-qt5 is NOT present,
IPE would run when natively compiled (also under Unity) but only under
non-unity desktop when build as a snap.

Any idea how to explain this behaviour?

/Dietmar/



On 29 July 2016 at 16:01, Dietmar Winkler <dietmar.winkler at dwe.no> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. Reading through the documentation of
> desktop-helper again I noticed that I might actually try the x11 plug
> instead of unity7 since it is the appmenu that causes problems in the
> first place.
>
> But now ipe would not launch at all. Also I don't get any error
> messages (apart from the Gtk warnings).
>
> Are there any debug logs I could search for to see what is getting stuck?
>
>
>
> On 29 July 2016 at 15:34, Joe Talbott <joe.talbott at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Note the remote parts are now at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/snapcraft/parts
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Joe
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Dietmar Winkler <dietmar.winkler at dwe.no> wrote:
>>> Seting the rests of the paths helped. I now have icons. The menu is
>>> still missing which reminded me that there currently is an issue with
>>> appmenu-qt5 which when naively compiled causes some keyboard shortcuts
>>> not to work.
>>> https://github.com/otfried/ipe-wiki/wiki/FAQ#ipe-doesnt-work-correctly-on-ubuntu
>>>
>>> I was wondering if it is possible to generate a variant of desktop/qt5
>>> without appmenu-qt5 staged.
>>>
>>> I've found the definition here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Snappy/Parts
>>> but would still need the source to point to.
>>>
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