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I've just installed QT 5 in Arch Linux, but only qtconfig doesn't work:

%> qtconfig
qtconfig: could not exec '/usr/lib/qt/bin/qtconfig': No such file or directory

Yes, there's no such file, not even /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qtconfig

Any ideas where to locate it? I need to adjust the font of smplayer, which is linked with QT 5 libraries now.

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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qtconfig no longer exist in Qt5. Qt5 applications will use the current desktop settings by default, but it doesn't work perfectly. For instance I'm using XFCE and it doesn't automatically set the style to Gtk.

The style can be set with the -style command line option, for instance -style=gtk . Or you can use a specific Qt stylesheet with -stylesheet. You can see the available options in QApplication documentation. Also :

You can also set the style for all Qt applications by setting the QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE environment variable.

For smplayer, you can change the default font and style used in the menu Option > Preferences > Interface.

Leiaz
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  • Sadly, QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE does not seem to work for me. I'm using keepassx, and when launched as `keepassx -style=gtk` it works, but `QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=gtk keepassx` does not. I've also tried exporting the environment variable elsewhere, and it still does not get picked up :( – Johann Jul 15 '17 at 01:20
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this here does its job: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/lxqt-config/

not packaged, afaik: http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Qt5+Configuration+Tool?content=168066

Matthias Schuster
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The solution that worked best for me is qt5ct, which is currently available in the standard Arch community packages. It's a DE-independant Qt5 configuration utility similar to the old qtconfig.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/qt#Configuration_of_Qt5_apps_under_environments_other_than_KDE_Plasma

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See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/qt

Qt packages do not provide the usual bin (e.g. qmake) in /usr/bin anymore.

Instead -qt5, -qt4 and -qt3 symlinks are provided (e.g. qmake-qt5, qmake-qt4, qmake-qt3).

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