Xlibe: an Xlib/X11 compatibility layer for Haiku

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Second that! …

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Not just for Flatpak apps. I’m using it right now with Firefox, without Flatpak.

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Probably it can, but I don’t really have any plans to be the one to do it (aside from possibly tweaking some options, I don’t intend to write code towards this end.)

GTK3 is now in the package repositories, though it’s still a bit unstable, so probably you could make the attempt at least.

No. Tk still does not work with Xlibe. There is an open issue about this. I conferred with undroidwish (“chw”) about it, and he said he’d try to find time to investigate. As I replied on that ticket, I don’t really understand why Tk has the problems it does on Xlibe.

Why does TexStudio need libX11 at all? Doesn’t it use Qt? Anyway you can open a ticket at Xlibe about this I suppose.

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Thanks for the pointer, I’ll keep an eye on that issue. Looks very odd indeed :frowning:

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Not possible, since file choosers are regular GTK widgets, and programs do crazy stuff with those, but you could implement GtkFileChooserNative.

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@waddlesplash Very cool. Chances are very high I ll try very soon. :blush:

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Inkscape builds and starts:

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However it has some problems as you can see:

  • No icons. This seems to be because GTK fails to load SVG icons. This should work when librsvg is installed, but for some reason it isn’t. I opened a ticket at HaikuPorts about that, maybe @3dEyes can look into it.
  • The background is a strange gray color. Not sure why.
  • The mouse sometimes behaves erratically, you have to restart the application a few times for it to work. (Though maybe this one was a fluke, I only saw it the first startup or two…?)

Additionally there are some Cairo and environment hacks I had to do to get it to start. I’ll try to fix the Cairo problems if I can, but the rest I’ll leave to the HaikuPorts team in general to tackle, and otherwise get back to Haiku itself, now that this quest is coming to a major milestone. :slight_smile:

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That looks fantastic @3dEyes. Is it stable/usable?

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I just fix svg icons. It needs testing

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Can we somehow test for you?

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It needs the headers from it, I will look at it when I get around to it again, I think I mentioned the failed build on IRC in the weekend.

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24 posts were split to a new topic: GIMP on Haiku

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Created an issue there, got a patch to solve this so it doesn’t need libX11, rebuilding to check for that.
If things reported at the issue are invalid I guess it could be closed.

EDIT need to see if those changes can be merged upstream if things will work out OK.

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Without PDF output TeX-Studio is not usefull!
My son is studiying Math and Physiks in Heidelberg and he cannot use TeXStudio on Haiku! Why waste energy and time if it is not working?

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Tex studio is a tex editor, it cant generate PDF itself, it uses TexLive for that, which is a different software.

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My wasted time is on my own, if it’s not working as expected on Haiku then don’t use it (as discussed on IRC a few times already), texlive is needed to have the full latex experience for this, and you probably need to build that your self?

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Of course, sorry, but is it usefull right now? Who is using it? And for what purpose?
I am just curious about the user point of view…

Thanks Begasus for your work, anyway…

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I’m amazed at how quickly we’ve been getting new ports the last few days/weeks thanks to Xlibe. GIMP and Inkscape are “big deal” apps IMHO! Thanks for the hard work guys :slight_smile:

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