intone fails to create a window, solved by installing libevas1-engines-x

[martinwguy]

You can install intone and run it, but it does nothing, saying on the console output:

CRI<25359>:elementary elm_win.c:2858 _win_constructor() Software X11 engine creation failed. Trying default.
ERR<25359>:elementary elm_win.c:2994 _win_constructor() Cannot create window.
...

This is solved by installing package libevas1-engines-x after which it works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: intone 0.77+git20120308-1build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-43.63-lowlatency 4.4.21
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-43-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Oct 23 06:46:27 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-11 (1076 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 12.04.3 "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820)
SourcePackage: intone
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2013-12-15 (1042 days ago)

[martinwguy (martinwguy)]

libevas1-engines-x is in the Recommmends: list, and it didn't work for me because I have Install-Recommends turned off in /etc/apt/apt.conf

For normal users it should work OK.

There's an argument to say that it should be required not recommended, but upstream it's the same way. I'll take it up with them.