Bug#811240: qmidinet: cannot connect to X server

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2016-06-17 2:21 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Giulio Moro wrote:
>> Package: qmidinet
>> Version: 0.1.2-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> when running
>>   $ qmidinet
>> I get
>>   qmidinet: cannot connect to X server
>> I am on a headless Beaglebone Black, so no X server is running.
>> qmidinet should realize that and should not try to connect to it.
>> Building qmidinet from source on the same machine produces a working
>> binary file.
>
> This bug seems almost fixed in 0.3.0. 0.3.0 now the '--no-gui' option
> which will allow you to run it without an X server. It also attempts to
> provide some automatic detection but there is a bug in this line:
> https://sources.debian.net/src/qmidinet/0.3.0-1/src/qmidinet.cpp/#L388
>
> Q_WS_X11 is a qt4 constant and is never defined in qt5 so the detection
> never works. The nearest constant in qt5 is Q_OS_UNIX, but the code
> should then also be modified to detect wayland displays as well (or
> maybe there is a QT API to do this portably?)
>

Hi,

can you please check if this is still bug with new 0.4.0 release?
If yes I think this issue should be fixed rather upstream.
Can you report it to upstream developers please?

best regards

mira