LyX on Gnome wayland - a new decoration alternative

[Isaac Oscar Gariano]

Hmm,
Are you using LyX 2.3, which uses Qt5?
I use the LyX 2.4 development version on Qt6 usually on Windows, but I occassionaly use it on Wayland  (through WSLg, which doesn't use a desktop environment).
Here's a screenshot using Adwaita:

[cid:4f27a80d-2de6-416b-ac6f-fc1ce0bf1348]

Is that what it's supposed to look like?
(On a side note, I recall liking "Plastic" (but I think it had a funny spelling) for Qt5, but I can't seem to find it for Qt6...)

Do you by any chance know where to find more Qt6 themes? (I only have variants of "HighContranst", "Adwaita", "kvantum", "Fusion", and "Windows" (which looks like a 25 year old version of Windows, not a recent one)).

— Isaac Oscar Gariano​
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From: lyx-users <lyx-users-bounces at lists.lyx.org> on behalf of Lorenzo Bertini <lorenzobertini97 at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, 25 November 2023 7:53 AM
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Subject: LyX on Gnome wayland - a new decoration alternative

Dear list,

if use LyX on Gnome wayland using "wayland" as a platform (and not "xcb") you probably don't have any shadow and only very basic window decoration. This is because Qt still hasn't implemented proper wayland decorations.

You then have to rely on external Qt plugins to have nicer decorations and shadows. The projects QGnomePlatform and adwaita-qt are being discontinued and replaced by QAdwaitaDecorations (https://github.com/FedoraQt/QAdwaitaDecorations).

I forked the latter in https://github.com/bertini97/qadwaitadecorations trying to address some problems of the original repo, like hardcoded colors and shadow artifacts.

Sorry if this is too off-topic. I posted in the hope of helping people who use Gnome and don't want to have a bad experience with LyX on wayland.

Lorenzo
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