Re: [Ayatana-dev] Debugging Unity-2d QML

[Ugo Riboni <ugo.riboni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On the other hand, if I try and run unity-2d-spread from qt creator it
> doesn't start properly, and doesn't log anything in the Application Output
> pane to explain why either. I had assumed this was because it wasn't running
> as root.

I normally run all the unity-2d-* applications from qtcreator in debug 
or non debug mode without trouble.
What do you mean that "it doesn't start properly" ? There's no process 
launched or the process is there but you see no output ? Or something else ?

> > Second, you don't need launcher and panel to be started by the session,
> > if all you need is to debug them.
> > What you can do is to change the
> > /usr/share/applications/unity-2d-launcher and change the line with the
> > name of the executable to something that doesn't exist (to prevent the
> > session from starting it).
> > Then log out of your session and log in again. Press ctrl+alt+t to start
> > a new terminal and launch qtcreator from there, then start your launcher
> > under a debugger.
> Yes, I assume you mean /usr/share/applications/unity-2d-launcher.desktop
> above. I've got the various binaries that are normally exec'd by the .desktop
> files replaced with custom shell scripts and that is working well. I can also
> try your suggestion of making the .desktop files try to run a non-existent
> binary.

Olivier's solution in this thread is probably cleaner. I would follow 
that one.

Cheers,
--
Ugo