Everyone deserves access to the internet your language should never be a barrier. The reason im reporting this as a possible xcbrelated issue is that one can. Because of this xcb glx cannot be used as a replacement for the glx. Meanwhile i experienced that thunderbird also crashes the same way. Support is included for the core x protocol and twentyseven extensions. Xcb is aimed primarily at new code and at toolkits. Running any glx application over network was horribly slow. The x protocol clanguage binding xcb is a replacement for xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility. Sep 15, 2012 qt5 is opengl based right, well xcb is a requirement on linux now, it wasnt on qt4. Could not load the qt platform plugin xcb in even though it was found. Extra windows x clients including glx demonstrators and xmon.
Its small enough that a complete reworking to use xcb. In fact, libx11 makes use of libxcb as much as possible. For example, if you wish to download the us english installer for windows. Firefox is created by a global nonprofit dedicated to putting individuals in control online.
The only difference is that thunderbird survives about 1 minut. Xlib can also use xcb as a transport layer, allowing software to. We have to build qt5 on linux with qt xcb, but if we are doing so, the glx could never be enabled, because the way the qtbaseconfigure is written, the glx can only be enabled and config test will only run if we build with system xcb. We spend countless hours researching various file formats and software that can open, convert, create or otherwise work with those files. Download mozilla firefox for linux free web browser mozilla. What i was trying to say is the video fails if enableglspectrum, withx, and disable xcb are passed the video fails to play when.
Virtualgl can now interpose enough of the xcb api to make qt 5 work properly. This isnt a podcast about window managers and the ways to make one. Creators of xcb have invented a specialized interface description language to model x11 protocol in languageneutral way and facilitate generation of bindings to other programming languages. Oct 25, 2016 xcb, x11, wayland whats happening here. Installing or updating zoom on linux zoom help center. You could now run, for example, firefox on a remote machine like this xming. This application failed to start because no qt platform. Package requirements x11 xext xdamage xfixes x11 xcb xcb glx 1. Every day thousands of users submit information to us about which programs they use to open specific types of files. The authors prior work on the x protocol c binding xcb is intended to provide a highquality but incompatible replacement for xlib. Flash player determines the language setting from the environment variable lang.
The x protocol clanguage binding xcb is a replacement for xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility news. Qtbug43784 glx is not enabled when building with qtxcb. Though we might record one in the future its about the architectural differences between the different ways of interacting with the system to display graphics. Errors this request does never generate any errors. Glx is not enabled when building with qt xcb qt bug tracker.
In addition to fixing bugs, this brings compatibility with check 0. Xcb glx only communicates with the x server, it does not perform any hardware initialization or touch the opengl clientside state. While xcb is believed to be suitable for most new application and toolkit construction, it is desirable to support the large installed base of legacy code and experience by augmenting xcb with an xlibcompatible. Thats why with the help of dedicated volunteers around the world we make the firefox. The xcb library provides an interface to the x window system protocol, designed to replace the xlib interface. This package is known to build and work properly using an lfs9. You need to change the video output in vlc, it dont work automaticly. The most important one at the moment is the flicker. Failed to load platform plugin xcb while launching. Im nitpicking here, but the difference is that there isnt a layer that converts calls. It makes use of the guile compiler and virtual machine to turn xml descriptions of the x protocol provided by the xcb project into guile object code files. Qt platform plugin xcb in cannot be loaded on centos. Pkgconfigxcbglx download for linux rpm download pkgconfig xcb glx linux packages for alt linux, centos, fedora, mageia, openmandriva, opensuse, pclinuxos alt linux sisyphus.
Xming x server for windows official website straightrunning. But when i am trying to launch it on the linux without qt sdk installed, the output in console is. This computer is one of a collection that was donated to the nonprofic company i work for. This package contains the library files needed to run software using libxcb glx, the glx extension for the x c binding. Written by steven starr in qt on 15 september 2012 at 03. Failed to load platform plugin xcb while launching qt5. Does someone know what this means or how i can otherwise obtain this plugin. We have to build qt5 on linux with qt xcb, but if we are doing so, the glx could never be enabled, because the way the qtbaseconfigure is written, the glx can only be enabled and config test will only run if we build with system xcb lib, which we do not want to.
It provides the basic functionality needed by qt gui and qt widgets to run against x11. Qt 5 does not use xcb to perform 3d rendering there is no suitable xcb replacement for glx yet, but it does use xcb to detect whether the glx. Guile xcb also includes some simple code for running asynchronous event loops. The xcb library provides an interface to the x window system protocol.
While we do not yet have a description of the glx file format and what it is normally used for, we do know which programs are known to open these files. Xcb is a project to enable efficient language bindings to the x11 protocol. Although i am done with the simple stuff, i have several problems. This application failed to start because it could not find or load the qt platform plugin xcb in. Flash player 32 is internationalized for a number of languages. If lang is not set, the player defaults to english. This application failed to start because it could not find or load the qt platform plugin xcb. Choose which firefox browser to download in your language. Download the deb installer file from our download center. Documentation contributions included herein are the s of their respective owners.
There are a number of mega addons available from the mozilla addons website, but none are actually made by mozilla. Introduction to xcb utilcursor the xcb utilcursor package provides a module that implements the xcb cursor library. Im trying to write something based off this code, but it doesnt seem to work. To use opengl in the x windowing system, one must use the glx api, and the glx. This application failed to start because no qt platform plugin could be initialized. Because of this xcb glx cannot be used as a replacement for the glx api. In fact, these days xlib uses xcb to talk with the server it used to be a partial use, im not sure to what extend xlib talks directly with the server these days. When i type firefox in console im using fluxbox at this moment i got that message. Tutorial configure vlc to play no hd videos with x11. This package contains the protocol descriptions themselves. Cant start firefox because of xpcomglueload error newbie. The xcb library provides an interface to the x window system protocol which is fully capable of replacing xlib.
You could now run, for example, firefox on a remote machine like this xming will. Linux box manager actually is another minimalistic window manager for x. I installed firefox by typing pacman s firefox and everything was ok unitil i tried to run firefox. Language bindings use these protocol descriptions to generate. I am trying to build a sun ultra 10 with solaris 10.
The xcbutil package provides a number of libraries that use the libxcb library, the. Xcb ported to windows without the performance degradation of a linux api translation layer. The software vendor had no installation script, just the executable with various font, lang, stamps, etc. On linux, the xcb qpa qt platform abstraction platform plugin is used. Download the firefox browser in english us and more than. In fact, these days xlib uses xcb to talk with the server it used to be a partial use, im not sure to what. X server occasionally became unresponsive when using the mozilla firefox. Introduction to xcb util the xcb util package provides additional extensions to the xcb library, many that were previously found in xlib, but are not part of core x protocol. If pure xcb opengl is impossible, then whats the use of the xcb glx api found in xcb glx. Xcb has a comparable, but slightly lowerlevel api than xlib, as can be seen with this example protocol description. Aborted core dumped so im typing this in a chrome browser in arch all programs work fine, but not after one minute or so.
Cannot create platform opengl context, neither glx nor egl are enabled my desktop is ubuntu 12. If pure xcb opengl is impossible, then whats the use of the xcbglx api found in xcbglx. Apologies for not being clear, and youre correct enable glx shouldnt be there. Scotland langgd galician langgl german langde greek langel gujarati. On the other hand, xcb exposes the protocol and allows programs to work directly with it. Calls to xlib and xcb can be mixed, so xlib applications can be converted partially or incrementally if desired.