Re: CVS woes: qt lacks title bar

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> On 11/26/2015 05:41 AM, pl...@pi... wrote:
>> On 26/11/15 07:49, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>> On 11/25/2015 04:57 PM, pl...@pi... wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have just built current CVS and was quickly testing qt. ( built with
>>>> qt5 )
>>>>
>>>> Terminal type set to 'qt'
>>>> gnuplot> plot sin(x*2.0*pi)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It works and resizes cleanly but the window is stuck up against the top
>>>> left corner of the screen and I do not have a title bar on it.
>>>>
>>>> No means to move the window and no close button to get rid of it.
>>>>
>>>> Built on Fedora23 LXDE spin installation.
>>>
>>> Isn't there some type of dock you can put on the desktop that will allow
>>> minimizing applications? Does that work properly with the window?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if many have been using qt5. Typically it is qt3 or qt4
>>> that is used. Unless you need qt5 for something else, try removing qt5
>>> from your installed software and run ./configure once again. See if the
>>> system finds qt4 and builds.

qt5 has been fully supported for a long time now. I have never seen any
gnuplot problems specific to the qt version, other than finding the right
libraries to link when building it.

>> yes, the minimise tool works. The configuration tool gets a proper
>> window with title bar and buttons. Save_As dialogue is normal. Just the
>> plot window is missing normal title bar.

I don't think I understand the description. Are you saying that
you are getting a plot window that is not embedded in the same frame
as the toolbar widgets?

     Ethan