[qutebrowser] qutebrowser fails to start on Ubuntu 22.04

[Luí­s Moreira de Sousa]

Hi Florian,

thank you for taking the time answer. The output in debug mode is pretty much the same. However, `echo $DISPLAY` is returning an empty string, meaning the problem is upstream to qutebrowser.

Best regards.

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Luís


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On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 10:44, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
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> 
> > $ qutebrowser
> > 10:18:41 WARNING: could not connect to display
> 
> 
> That sounds like either your DISPLAY is not set, or you're running
> Wayland without XWayland.
> 
> What do you get with "echo $DISPLAY"?
> 
> If it's the former, find out why that is, because it definitely should
> be (you won't be able to start any GUI apps from the terminal).
> 
> > Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl,
> > offscreen, vnc, xcb.
> 
> 
> Notably, there is no Qt wayland plugin installed. Do you have
> "qtwayland5" installed?
> 
> If yes, "export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1" might tell you more about why it's
> not being loaded.
> 
> > Extension modules: PyQt5.QtCore, [...]
> 
> 
> Also note Qt 5 (and qutebrowser 2.5.0 you'd get from the Ubuntu repos)
> are both rather outdated. If you don't need proprietary codecs, you
> might be better off installing something newer in a virtualenv:
> 
> https://qutebrowser.org/doc/install.html#tox
> 
> Florian