| nova | I installed "qt5ct" so I could change my default qt theme to gtk2. I was able to run it in a terminal, only after exporting avariable called QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct". I set my theme successfully and everything works like it should, but there is a new icon in my Xubuntu Settings area called "Qt5 Settings", and when i click on it it says "The QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME variable is not set correctly". | 06:05 |
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| nova | is there a way to make this Qt5 Settings icon actually launch qt5ct? | 06:07 |
| Unit193 | https://sources.debian.org/src/qt5ct/0.35-1/debian/99qt5ct/ that sets the var unless the var already exists, which /etc/X11/Xsession.d/56xubuntu-session does. | 06:08 |
| nova | oh thank you ill take a look | 06:08 |
| Unit193 | You could modify one of those two, or just modify something else such that it gets set for your user. | 06:09 |
| nova | but even after i set it, and run it in a terminal with success, the icon in Xubuntu Settings still doesn' | 06:09 |
| nova | doesn't function correctly | 06:09 |
| nova | I know nothing about how those icons are placed there | 06:10 |
| Unit193 | I'm presuming that you set it in a terminal using 'export...', but then switch to the menu to launch the application? If so, yes of course that won't work, you're just updating the var in the terminal. | 06:12 |
| nova | If this is already set to gtk2 by default on a clean install, why did my qt programs look wrong? | 06:12 |
| nova | gtk2 wasn't an option with qt5ct until i installed qt5-style-plugins | 06:14 |
| Unit193 | Because you didn't have that installed yet. | 06:14 |
| nova | does that mean if I had just installed qt5-style-plugins, the default QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2 variable would have activated it? | 06:15 |
| Unit193 | Yep. | 06:16 |
| nova | shouldn't it be included in xubuntu by default? | 06:17 |
| Unit193 | Not in the slightest. Xubuntu doesn't ship anything Qt based, and if that were installed it would pull in the whole Qt5 stack. | 06:18 |
| nova | I don't think I installed ALL of qt | 06:19 |
| nova | I don't know...I installed VLC and skypeforlinux and notepadqq, and all were qt based, and they looked pretty fugly | 06:21 |
| Unit193 | So, install qt5-style-plugins and they'll be fixed. | 06:22 |
| nova | ok i got that, and qt5ct too, should i remove the latter as it is not necessary? | 06:23 |
| Unit193 | That'd be up to you, I believe it has more options than just what Xubuntu sets. | 06:23 |
| nova | it does | 06:24 |
| nova | but having a broke link in the xubuntu settings is jsut a tiny tiny bit irritating | 06:24 |
| nova | i can ignore it...if i had too..lol | 06:25 |
| Unit193 | Or could fix that. | 06:25 |
| nova | oh right so setting it in /etc/X11/ will fix that? | 06:26 |
| nova | i see you mentioned when i export a variable in a terminal it only applies to that terminal | 06:26 |
| nova | I've only been tinkering with linux for 20 years..can you tell? lol | 06:26 |
| nova | still feel like a noob | 06:27 |
| nova | Thank you for the help again sir | 06:28 |
| nova | Still loving my Numix...I need to learn to use diff though | 06:28 |
| nova | make some patches like you did | 06:28 |
| Unit193 | I simply modified the source package. :3 | 06:29 |
| Unit193 | diff -u file1.ext file2.ext basically. | 06:29 |
| nova | will that account for everything in the numic folder recursively or do i need to do that per file? | 06:29 |
| nova | Numix folder** | 06:30 |
| Unit193 | You can do it on a folder, recursivly, with -r | 06:30 |
| nova | i guess i wouldnt want to do it for every file that would be crazy | 06:30 |
| nova | cool ill have to give that a try in case they send out an update | 06:31 |
| nova | i neglected to give it a unique name | 06:31 |
| nova | i should probably do that too | 06:31 |
| nova | Oh and on a totally unrelated note I wanted to tell all the xubuntu team that I reformatted my aunts windows 10 notebook and put Xubuntu on it! | 06:33 |
| nova | It had a 32GB eMMC that was so full that it couldn't download the 8GB of updates it wanted to install. | 06:34 |
| pmjdebru1jn | common issue :) | 06:34 |
| Unit193 | Ouch.. | 06:34 |
| nova | problem solved...its so fast now..and 20GB still free | 06:35 |
| nova | OK that worked great thanks again Unit193 | 06:48 |
| m00n_urn | Hello! my /etc/fstab file says "/swapfile none swap sw 0 0". Does this mean my swap partition isn't mounted anywhere and thus doesn't work? | 12:08 |
| diogenes_ | m00n_urn, it has to be: none swap sw 0 0 | 12:11 |
| diogenes_ | so it's ok | 12:11 |
| m00n_urn | but usually swap is mounted someplace right? | 12:11 |
| diogenes_ | m00n_urn, if you wanna know more about swap then check this out: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/swap | 12:12 |
| Spass | Arch Wiki is awesome, but remember that Ubuntu also has a good documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq | 12:59 |
| Spass | we're on #xubuntu after all | 12:59 |
| aerozoic | wazup peeps! Anybody know how to make the audio work for intel cherry trail chipsets? | 18:18 |
| aerozoic | on 18.04. | 18:19 |
| xubuntu27i | hello! | 19:00 |
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