diff --git a/src/frontends/controllers/Dialog.h b/src/frontends/controllers/Dialog.h
index d585dcb5b4..defc1d792f 100644
--- a/src/frontends/controllers/Dialog.h
+++ b/src/frontends/controllers/Dialog.h
@@ -197,6 +197,12 @@ public:
 	virtual bool exitEarly() const { return false; }
 	//@}
 
+	/// Main Window access.
+	/// This is unfortunately needed for the qt4 frontend and the \c
+	/// QDialogView framework. This permits to give a parent to the
+	/// constructed \c QDialog via a cast to \c GuiView.
+	LyXView * view() { return &parent_.kernel().lyxview(); }
+
 protected:
 	/** \name Controller Access
 	 *  Enable the derived classes to access the other parts of the whole.
diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/QDelimiterDialog.C b/src/frontends/qt4/QDelimiterDialog.C
index e3402e725c..6c1712fbcf 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/QDelimiterDialog.C
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/QDelimiterDialog.C
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 #include "QDelimiterDialog.h"
 
 #include "GuiApplication.h"
+#include "GuiView.h"
+
 
 #include "qt_helpers.h"
 #include "controllers/ControlMath.h"
@@ -70,7 +72,8 @@ QMathDelimiter::QMathDelimiter(Dialog & parent)
 
 void QMathDelimiter::build_dialog()
 {
-	dialog_.reset(new QDelimiterDialog(this));
+	dialog_.reset(new QDelimiterDialog(this,
+		static_cast<GuiView *>(controller().view())));
 }
 
 
@@ -99,8 +102,8 @@ char_type QDelimiterDialog::doMatch(char_type const symbol) const
 }
 
 
-QDelimiterDialog::QDelimiterDialog(QMathDelimiter * form)
-	: form_(form)
+QDelimiterDialog::QDelimiterDialog(QMathDelimiter * form, QWidget * parent)
+	: QDialog(parent), form_(form)
 {
 	setupUi(this);
 
diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/QDelimiterDialog.h b/src/frontends/qt4/QDelimiterDialog.h
index dded616d9a..0fd35577c6 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/QDelimiterDialog.h
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/QDelimiterDialog.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class QMathDelimiter;
 class QDelimiterDialog : public QDialog, public Ui::QDelimiterUi {
 	Q_OBJECT
 public:
-	QDelimiterDialog(QMathDelimiter * form);
+	QDelimiterDialog(QMathDelimiter * form, QWidget * parent);
 public Q_SLOTS:
 	void on_leftLW_itemActivated(QListWidgetItem *);
 	void on_rightLW_itemActivated(QListWidgetItem *);