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@bbbhitz Yes, this a working way to add an additional widget style to qt6. People interested in "legacy" styles will surely have more work to do than before to get what they want.

The pulse option was there for me too even during my short PipeWire time, and even working, so that is not really an indication for the presence of PulseAudio. And your two apt --dry-run reports seem to contradict each other... Nevertheless, as suggested in the posts above, uninstalling/reinstalling is always possible without side effects, so I would say go ahead and try, but after uninstalling any of them, make sure that it is really gone completely (best checked after rebooting).

RickWakefield wrote: 2024-12-22 09:23 Is this to say that qt6 cannot apply the gtk2 theme like qt5 can?

It is not that it cannot (actually widget style, not really theme); it simply does not contain it. As I said, qt6 only contains the Windows and Fusion styles; other styles will have to be provided by third parties and somehow installed in order to become selectable. The colour scheme is a separate matter, and I don't think that widget styles place any restrictions on the colours applied.

CwF From the thread that you linked to, I think you want to suggest that it is possible to switch back and forth between PulseAudio and PipeWire. I can back this up with my own experience, since I jut did it. However, removing PipeWire is not as straight forward as one would expect; I had my hard time making it disappear from the inxi report.
sudo apt autoremove
did the last bit, so the relevant part of the inxi report looks like this:
Audio:
Device-1: Intel C600/X79 series High Definition ...

Wm. A. Weasel wrote: 2024-12-21 19:59 Would returning to pulse be as simple as apt install pulseaudio?

Most probably yes, provided that you uninstall PipeWire first.

There seem to be some issues (see this thread ) when both PulseAudio and PipeWire are installed on Bookworm. On the good side, your inxi report shows that only PipeWire acts as sound server, but the wpctl report shows that PulseAudio is also present. I would go with uninstalling one of them.

[Edit] I have just
sudo apt install pipewire-audio
on my desktop running Bookworm 12.8 with kernel 6.1.0-28-amd64, Audacity 3.2.4, getting PipeWire 0.3.65 installed as Audio Server-1, and Audacity runs ...

Have you tried to select another playback device? For me, some devices, such as (hw:0, 0), yield behaviour just as you describe; others, such as front, lead to Audacity producing an error message, and at least default, dmix and pulse work normally. PipeWire is not in my list, so I guess it is not installed by default.

@maloosheck See this thread. I am quite sure it is the same problem: most of the times, I see the lines that I have shown there, but once in a while I get the lines that you have shown. The last link given by @kvdberg shows that the systemd developers are aware of the problem and struggling to solve it.

@arzgi Thank you for the swift reply. But in this case, I will just stick with the default theme, since the transition between default and X-Creamy is not something I can get used to.

Hi there,

I have seen this thread about alternate themes and tried X-Creamy out of curiosity. It works fine as long as I am logged in, but as soon as I log out, I am thrown back to the default theme. Is this the intended behaviour?

Since I suspect that the lines that follow after pressing a key (shown in cyan) are more relevant than the last line visible when halting, here they are, in the hope that they will be helpful for the people that can do something about it:
[ 4.585293] systemd-sysv-generator[497]: SysV service '/etc/init.d/preload' lacks a native systemd unit file, automatically generating a unit file for compatibility.
[ 4.585302] systemd-sysv-generator[497]: Please update package to include a native systemd ...

Qt5 includes the following themes:

• cleanlooks

• gtk2

• cde

• motif

• plastique

• Windows

• Fusion

Qt6 only includes Windows and Fusion. I don't know how they plan to support extra themes, if at all; probably they will be available as separate packages.

Do you have any physical side buttons except the power button on the edges of your tablet? If yes, it may be worth trying to press them. On my laptop, I can press any key except the power key to get past that occasional halt.

Folllowing up, what's dracut and how will I know if I'm using it?


If you don't know what's dracut, you are most probably not using it, unless you are on someone else's machine; it is not installed by default. And don't worry about building the drivers: that happens automatically during installation. You just have to be sure that you have already installed the latest Linux headers before starting to install the nVidia drivers. For your card, you can most likely directly install nvidia-driver ...

I'm not a developer but it appears that libdrumstick bug interferes with the Qt6 migration.


Qt6 as framework (the libraries) was not removed during the last few weeks; it was qtcreator, which thankfully made it back Today :D .

jebez I am quite new to Trixie (since August this year), but it was new for me to recently experience the disappearance of frequently-used applications . However, sunrat has taught me to be patient, and young events have shown that he was right. The temporary ...

qtcreator is back too! Now I am positive that it is only a matter of short time until Blender makes it too.

My suspicion that an output port should be listed has turned out to be right. After more web research, I have found an answer to my question on http://www.tedfelix.com/linux/linux-midi.html. With fluidsynth running in one terminal and providing an output port, aplaymidi was finally able to produce audible sounds. Concluding, aplaymidi really needs somebody to provide an output port, and the fact that fluidsynth can also play midi files renders aplaymidi quite superfluous...

Hello there,

I am trying to use aplaymidi to play a midi file, but I am not able to get any sound, even though it looks like it is playing.

The only listed port is:
tiberius@rog:~$ aplaymidi -l
Port Client name Port name
14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0
The same single port is listed on all my machines, and I suppose that an output port should be listed in order to get any sound. But how to get an output port listed?
I have sound font files installed. Timidity can play midi files, as ...

I was overjoyed to find out that the wine and 0ad packages have made it back into Trixie! Thank you maintainers! And the hope that blender and qtcreator will also come back soon has just increased.

I'm in the same boat with a 18 TB storage array that holds all the family photographs.

18TB? :o I thought my wife with just over 100 GB is world champion! Did you ever try to figure how much of your life time you will need to review all that material? I can only remark that since photos have become digital, we have amassed inflationary amounts of them, and in the rare occasions that we are in the mood to "look in the past", we only look at the albums of "real" photos, from the time when you ...