Qt6 platform rendering issues on Ubuntu 22.04

JoeCFD

#include "helpwidget.h"

#include <QApplication>

int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    auto widget = new HelpWidget;
    widget->show();

    return app.exec();
}

helpwidget.h

#ifndef HELPWIDGET_H
#define HELPWIDGET_H

#include <QWidget>

//! [0]
class HelpWidget : public QWidget
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    HelpWidget(QWidget *parent = nullptr);

};
//! [0]

#endif // HelpWidget_H

helpwidget.cpp

#include <QVBoxLayout>
#include <QLabel>
#include <QPushButton>


#include "helpwidget.h"

HelpWidget::HelpWidget( QWidget * parent )
    : QWidget(parent) 
{    
    auto layout = new QVBoxLayout( this );
    setMinimumSize( 400, 400 );

    auto label = new QLabel( "Dis/enabled test", this );
    auto button = new QPushButton( "Press", this );

    layout->addWidget( label );
    layout->addWidget( button );

    connect( button, &QPushButton::pressed,
             [=](){  auto isEnabled = label->isEnabled();
                     label->setEnabled( !isEnabled ); } );
}

Robert Hairgrove

@JoeCFD Thanks!

Could you also please post the contents of the *.pro file (or CMake project file) that you used to build this?

JoeCFD

@Robert-Hairgrove There you.
testlabel.pro

QT += widgets

HEADERS += \
        helpwidget.h 

SOURCES += \
        helpwidget.cpp \
        main.cpp

Robert Hairgrove

@JoeCFD Your code builds and runs OK, but when I click on the "Press" button, the label does not change its appearance.

Please post the results of the following commands run in a terminal:

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
echo $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

Also:

echo $QT_QPA_PLATFORM

Thank you!

JoeCFD

@Robert-Hairgrove
x11
Lubuntu
LXQt
empty

JonB

@Robert-Hairgrove
@SGaist understands this much better than I do, but is your picture #2 (no borders and Qt6.5) somehow "wayland"? Which might not have/do the effects of x11/xcb?

Robert Hairgrove

@JonB Yes, it is wayland if I do not set "-platform xcb" as a command line option.

Robert Hairgrove

I forgot to add that the precise version of Qt I have is 6.5.3 which was installed automatically by the Qt Creator maintenance tool.

JoeCFD

@Robert-Hairgrove I guess the problem should be gone if you switch to X11. Do you have to use Wayland? Wayland is the default setting in Ubuntu 22.04.

Robert Hairgrove

@JoeCFD "X11" is not listed as an available platform argument (see my reply to @SGaist above).

How would I do this, switch to X11?

JoeCFD

@Robert-Hairgrove logout your account. You can see a settings icon on the login screen and click the setting icon to select Xorg. Then log in and you will be good.

Robert Hairgrove

@JoeCFD Thanks.

I logged in again with XOrg, but unfortunately the problem persists.

Robert Hairgrove

@JoeCFD BTW, what is "LXQt"?

JoeCFD

@Robert-Hairgrove did you do:
make distclean
qmake
make
run

JoeCFD

@Robert-Hairgrove said in Qt6 platform rendering issues on Ubuntu 22.04:

LXQt

https://lxqt-project.org/

Robert Hairgrove

OK, this must be a bug introduced in 6.5.

I installed Qt versions 6.2.4, 6.3.2, 6.4.3 in addition to 6.5.3 and 6.6.0. Up to 6.4.3, the controls are displayed correctly (enabled=black text, disabled=gray).

Beginning with 6.5.3 and also 6.6.0, the problem arises (everything displays as if enabled, regardless of state).

Looks like I need to file a bug report, but I don't have time today to do it today.

JonB

@Robert-Hairgrove
As before, this is only a suggestion. I wonder whether Qt 6.5+ has introduced some change in default so that it is using Wayland over Xorg? And that might be the cause of the changed look? I came across e.g. Qt 6.5 Adding Wayland Native Interface

and now set to come with Qt 6.5 is support for a Wayland native interface for application developers wanting to interact directly with Wayland object handles.

Did Qt 6.5 become more preferentially Wayland-y than earlier?

Robert Hairgrove

@JonB I get the same result regardless of whether I log in using Xorg or Wayland, as far as the enabled/disabled bug is concerned.

If I log in with Xorg, Qt seems to load xcb, otherwise wayland is used. I can also specify either platform on the command line; this will change the way some things are displayed, e.g. window border or not, but in every case the bug described above still persists.

BTW I also made sure that the Qt Wayland Compositor module was included in all of the installations of Qt. I thought not having that installed might have led to the error, but apparently it makes no difference.

JonB

@Robert-Hairgrove said in Qt6 platform rendering issues on Ubuntu 22.04:

this will change the way some things are displayed, e.g. window border or not, but in every case the bug described above still persists.

Ah. So it does make a difference as I suspected, but it does not resolve/alter your particular issue.

SGaist

@Robert-Hairgrove said in Qt6 platform rendering issues on Ubuntu 22.04:

OK, this must be a bug introduced in 6.5.

I installed Qt versions 6.2.4, 6.3.2, 6.4.3 in addition to 6.5.3 and 6.6.0. Up to 6.4.3, the controls are displayed correctly (enabled=black text, disabled=gray).

Beginning with 6.5.3 and also 6.6.0, the problem arises (everything displays as if enabled, regardless of state).

Looks like I need to file a bug report, but I don't have time today to do it today.

Looks like you may have found a regression, you should check the bug report system.