Hello community,

do you know possible reasons for krita 2.8 interface to look messy with linux mint 15 like shown below? Tools on the left are hidden and also buttons are missing below the layer panel.

I'm on PC with nvidia gtx 580. I just updated all nvidia drivers. All other software looks good and the same krita on my windows 7 is also fine.



Would be glad about any suggestion.

Greetings,
drichter

Hi,

I'm not sure about that particular distribution, but we ran into similar display problems on Windows when we accidentally removed some of the icons - I think from the Oxygen icon set.

Maybe that's available to install for your platform? (Or someone else might be able to advise further based on this?)

Regards
Stuart

Thanks, that could be a hint.

I tried:
sudo apt-get install oxygen-cursor-theme oxygen-cursor-theme-extra

which did not solve it so far. also in softwaremanager I found oxygen cursor theme and installed it.

if nothing helps I will change the distribution...

Here, you need this package:

sudo apt-get install kde-style-oxygen

Calligra building instructions

For some reason the packagers haven't noticed...

This is what I did:

- Removed distribution with latest ubuntu
- installed krita (also no icons showing up)
- installed everything mentioned in context with calligra (also icons)
- restart

still no icons there

to make this clear: do I need calligra as a base to have krita working correctly because krita won't work standalone?

sorry, i'm no linux expert and maybe I am missing basic stuff - just want to switch to open source software for a studentic project

finally got it working. i used software manager in linux mint and installed calligra first and then krita

drichter wrote:finally got it working. i used software manager in linux mint and installed calligra first and then krita

I have the same problem, and I tried what you did, but even Calligra won't run and is giving me an error message:

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Essential application components could not be found.
This might be an installation issue.
Try restarting, running kbuildsycoca4.exe or reinstalling.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? As well, what's also strange is that sometimes, I can change Krita's window size, sometimes I can't...basically the 'maximize' button goes missing randomly on start for the actual window, but I think this maybe be issue with my OS, not Krita. Running Mint + Cinnamon, btw...any help appreciated.

Grrrr...

Yeah, the maximise button randomly dissapearing is indeed a Cinnamon problem, I've had it frequenctly on cinnamon as well.

However, hseiken, try typing 'kbuildsycoca' into a terminal. It's a little application that invetarises where all application components are, and could very well help starting up the program!

TheraHedwig wrote:Yeah, the maximise button randomly dissapearing is indeed a Cinnamon problem, I've had it frequenctly on cinnamon as well.

However, hseiken, try typing 'kbuildsycoca' into a terminal. It's a little application that invetarises where all application components are, and could very well help starting up the program!

I apparently do not have kbuildsycoca4 and do not know a repository to obtain it. I checked package manager and software manager...neither of them have it. Does it go by another name?

EDIT:

Let me rephrase:

This is the error message I get. I've tried all the options, but they all spit out same error.

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kbuildsycoca4(10293): "applications.menu"  not found in  ("/home/hseiken/.config/menus/", "/etc/xdg/menus/")


Please provide the output of "ls /etc/xdg/menus".

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applications-merged           cinnamoncc.menu          xfce-settings-manager.menu
cinnamon-applications.menu    gnome-applications.menu
cinnamon-applications-merged  xfce-applications.menu


I was working on switching over to XFCE...but haven't just yet...is this causing the confusion?

Oh one more thing...after failing to properly install Calligra, Krita's tool bar now has no icons and instead has very *tiny* buttons that are a circle with a dot in the center and only appear on mouse over. As well, the title to the tool bar is obscured. So the install did something, but in reality, that something is worse than before.

Can you please check to see if the oxygen-icons package is installed?

I had oxygen widgets. I installed oxygen theme complete (which also checked off the icons package).

Now it works. Thanks. But what was up with my Calligra install? Am I just going to have all that stuff half-installed now to keep Krita running or can I uninstall them, leaving only the components essential to Krita?

This will depend on how your distribution has packaged Calligra i'm afraid. Generally though, you'll need to have most of Calligra installed (except the other Calligra applications themselves) in order for Krita to be able to offer all of it's functionality as most packaging is not fine grained enough to allow for installing only the parts needed by Krita.