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Hammer41

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Registered: 2021-09-13

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official GNU TeXmacs build performs better than the ArchLinux build

I have tried two versions of GNU TeXmacs recently, and following is a comparison:

https://telegra.ph/The-comparison-of-tw … ilds-09-13

I wonder why the office build is better on high resolution display ?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: official GNU TeXmacs build performs better than the ArchLinux build

"Performs"…

The archbuild links dynimc Qt which will adhere to your local $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME (KDE?) and texmacs can't deal w/ a couple of the things (apparently it's not HiDPI capable and it doesn't seem to like the used QStyle either)

Try unsetting QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME and please fix your subject and post to actually reflect your issue and not some misleading "performance" issue that ppl. have to decypher by looking at some blog post.

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fanjiang

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Registered: 2021-04-12

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Re: official GNU TeXmacs build performs better than the ArchLinux build

I have the same issue. I think it somehow is linked with the Qt distribution in Arch Linux, and there is an upstream issue https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=det … m_id=60408 .

Ubuntu does not have this issue and Qt under Wayland in Arch works fine.

fanjiang

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Registered: 2021-04-12

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Re: official GNU TeXmacs build performs better than the ArchLinux build

It appears that the officially packaged version is using Qt 4 and linked the Qt statically.