an empty grey window appears when starting the gui as root

Bug #1493020 reported by Rieker.F
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Back In Time
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

The reason is an bug in Qt4, the fix would be adding:

export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM="native" or export QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1

to the backintime-qt4 start script.

For further informations see:
https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/backintime/?comments=all
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=78672
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/494366-Unable-to-login-via-VNC-with-any-other-account-than-root
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807781

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Rieker.F (spam-wabuo) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Germar (germar) wrote :

Thanks for the patch

Changed in backintime:
status: New → Fix Committed
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 1.1.8
Germar (germar)
Changed in backintime:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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