Failed to start "Creating action dialog pixel color" about actiona HOT 7 CLOSED

Thanks for the report and sorry for the late answer.

This is not an issue coming from Actiona but from Qt itself, they dropped support for Gtk based environments with Qt 5.7, but it should come back with Qt 5.8: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=214147 This issue should be present in all applications using Qt.

Sadly you can only apply workarounds like using another window manager.

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Exactly what window managers "work" with this application? GNOME, GNOME Classic, and XFCE don't. I highly doubt KDE does since it's basically THE Qt window manager.

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I just tested and can confirm that it works with Plasma (KDE). It seems that a fix for other window managers is to compile qt5ct and use it as a Qt theme instead of Gtk: https://github.com/mati75/qt5ct
There doesn't seem to be a package so a manual download and compilation is needed. It don't have the time to try it now but will do in the following days.

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Ok, good idea. I just tested and can confirm that compiling and using qt5ct as platform theme (following the instructions at https://github.com/mati75/qt5ct) allows Actiona to start on Debian 9.

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From https://sparkylinux.org/qt-5-7-0-doesnt-support-gtk-theming/ :

sudo apt -y install qt5-style-plugins
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2 actiona

You might need to place the environment variable in /etc/environment and reboot (in my case simply prefixing it onto the actiona invocation was enough).

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Thank you - that sorted it on Debian 9

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