Re: Qt5 issues in LXQt from wip

[Niclas Rosenvik <nros%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 00:50:57 +0200
"Kamil Rytarowski" <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:

> Niclas Rosenvik wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:51:55 +0200
> > "Kamil Rytarowski" <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've packaged the LXQt Desktop Environment in pkgsrc-wip as
> > > wip/lxde.
> > > 
> > > LXQt is based on KF5 (KDE4 libs successor) and Qt5.
> > > I was trying to link lxqt against our Qt5 packaged, but I have got
> > > problems with xcb.
> > > 
> > > $ lxqt-about
> > > This application failed to start because it could not find or load
> > > the Qt platform plugin "xcb". Available platform plugins are:
> > > minimal, offscreen, xcb. Reinstalling the application may fix this
> > > problem.
> > > 
> > > Can someone please test whether the issue isn't just local to me
> > > as I'm on current.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > 
> > It works for me on NetBSD 6 with pkgsrc-current. Are you on
> > NetBSD-current? or do you mean that you use pkgsrc-current with wip?
> 
> Actually both, NetBSD-current and pkgsrc-current -- not timely recent
> but relatively new. I add to it wip from pkgsrc-wip.
> 
> > One thing about xcb, I have had problems with xcb and qt5 on NetBSD
> > 6. having X11_TYPE=modular in mk.conf fixes this.
> 
> Thank you for pointing this out, I will try to have a look at this
> issue closely. At least there is a working reference of the modular
> X11 setup.
>

If you are using netbsd-current the native xcb libraries should be new
enough to work with qt5.

/Niclas