it appears you are right and this is VBox releated. Wired, i could have sworn i was working on my physical machine when this happened....i will investigate when i get home.
thanks for your reply. 2014-07-25 9:46 GMT+02:00 Sze Howe Koh <szehowe....@gmail.com>: > Hi Felix, > > On 25 July 2014 15:21, Felix morack <felixo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, > > > > just installed Qt 5.3.1 + QtCreator on my Ubuntu 14.04 x64 machine via > the > > online installer and was surprised by how poorly it works, or rather: not > > works. > > > > > > The first thing one notices when firing up QtCreator is a wired UI > glitch, > > that i have reported about ten times already - a year ago. > > > > The glitch causes part of the UI window to become top most somehow, see > > here: > > > > https://i.imgur.com/TEDJGdI.png > > Are you running this in a virtual machine? VirtualBox is known to have > OpenGL issues which affects Qt Creator's Welcome screen. This seems to > have been fixed in VirtualBox 4.3.12: > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34964 > > Disable the Welcome screen and see if it helps. In Qt Creator, go to > "Help" -> "About Plugins..." and uncheck "Qt Creator" -> "Welcome" and > restart. > > > > The second thing is that terminating via the X in the window bar freezes > my > > entire system and i have to do a hard reset. > > I'm not sure about this issue. Do the previous steps help? > > > > Between all that, the compilation errored out with missing libraries, > even > > after excessive fiddling with kits and compiler options. (Not that the > > default GCC would have been detected automatically). > > You need to install the g++ compiler (which isn't included in GCC by > default) and OpenGL development libraries (libgl1-mesa-dev). > > > > A truly frustrating experience. > > > > > > Do you need more testers for the linux/ubuntu department? If so, count me > > in. > > > Regards, > Sze-Howe >
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