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Re: QtWebKit WebViews appear black on i386 emulator
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Olivier Tilloy <
olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:55 AM, David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Olivier Tilloy <
>> olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
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>>>> I'm running r113 on an i386 emulator. It seems to be working pretty
>>>> well, but all QtWebKit WebViews appear solid black. This means that HTML5
>>>> apps are broken, as are the parts of QML apps that rely on these WebViews.
>>>> Oxide WebViews, however, are displayed just fine. I assume this is a
>>>> problem with the emulator and/or my system. Perhaps it's an OpenGL issue?
>>>>
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>>> Likely.
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>>> Has anyone else seen something similar? Any suggestions of solutions to
>>>> try?
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>>> This was reported on Monday by dpm (not sure whether there is a bug
>>> report to track the issue already though, feel free to file one at
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-html5-theme/+filebug). Unfortunately
>>> the HTML5 container on Ubuntu Touch hasn’t migrated to oxide yet, but this
>>> is being worked on.
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>>> QtWebKit is not something we can afford to support along with Oxide, so
>>> let’s hope we can update the HTML5 container very soon.
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>> Hi Olivier,
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>> That was the reason why I did not report the bug, as I thought it'd make
>> more sense to focus on getting everything migrated to Oxide rather than
>> trying to fix something that's going to become obsolete very soon.
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>> For more context, I could reproduce this first when running Reminders in
>> the emulator (the Evernote notes are loaded in a WebKit-based web view),
>> and then I could see it too running Eventunity from the store.
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>> We've now got a Reminders branch that's migrated to Oxide [1], but now
>> running it on the emulator I get this error when trying to load the content
>> of a note:
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>> LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
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>> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/oxide-qt/chrome-sandbox
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>> If it makes a difference, I tested this on an image (118) that's not the
>> latest. Any ideas?
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> Yes, that one’s easy to fix: you need to add the "webview" policy group to
> the apparmor manifest.
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That did it, thanks Olivier!
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