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

Discussion:

t***@gmail.com

2018-04-23 15:45:40 UTC

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

Eike Ziller

2018-04-24 07:34:06 UTC

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Qt 5.11 will be the first version that actually comes with binaries for the wayland plugin.
Qt Creator builds on our Qt binary packages.
But actually this email is a good reminder for me to take care of https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-18914 .

Otherwise I have no idea in what state the wayland support is.

Post by t***@gmail.com
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
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland ./qtcreator
- 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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Eike Ziller

2018-04-25 09:44:41 UTC

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Post by Eike Ziller

Qt 5.11 will be the first version that actually comes with binaries for the wayland plugin.
Qt Creator builds on our Qt binary packages.
But actually this email is a good reminder for me to take care of https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-18914 .
Otherwise I have no idea in what state the wayland support is.

The Qt Creator 4.7 snapshot at http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qtcreator/4.7/4.7.0-beta1/ should now come with the wayland platform plugin.

Post by Eike Ziller

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D-12489 Berlin
http://qt.io
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Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho
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t***@gmail.com

2018-04-24 08:37:02 UTC

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Hi Alexey,

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

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)

Post by t***@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.
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
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland ./qtcreator
- 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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