qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.

CuriousPan

@jsulm, Hello.
I have found configure.summary file. Here's the content for it. Is this what you meant?

Building for: linux-g++ (x86_64, CPU features: mmx sse sse2)
Compiler: gcc 9.3.0
Build options:
  Mode ................................... debug
  Optimize debug build ................... no
  Fully optimize release builds (-O3) .... no
  Building shared libraries .............. yes
  Using C standard ....................... C11
  Using C++ standard ..................... C++17
  Using ccache ........................... no
  Using new DTAGS ........................ yes
  Generating GDB index ................... no
  Relocatable ............................ yes
  Using precompiled headers .............. yes
  Using LTCG ............................. no
  Target compiler supports:
    SSE .................................. SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2
    AVX .................................. AVX AVX2
    AVX512 ............................... F ER CD PF DQ BW VL IFMA VBMI
    Other x86 ............................ AES F16C RDRAND SHA
    Intrinsics without compiler architecture option  yes
  Sanitizers:
    Addresses ............................ no
    Threads .............................. no
    Memory ............................... no
    Fuzzer (instrumentation only) ........ no
    Undefined ............................ no
  Build parts ............................ libs tools
Qt modules and options:
  Qt Concurrent .......................... yes
  Qt D-Bus ............................... yes
  Qt D-Bus directly linked to libdbus .... no
  Qt Gui ................................. yes
  Qt Network ............................. yes
  Qt Sql ................................. yes
  Qt Testlib ............................. yes
  Qt Widgets ............................. yes
  Qt Xml ................................. yes
Support enabled for:
  Using pkg-config ....................... yes
  udev ................................... no
  Using system zlib ...................... no
  Zstandard support ...................... no
  Thread support ......................... yes
Qt Core:
  backtrace .............................. yes
  DoubleConversion ....................... yes
    Using system DoubleConversion ........ no
  GLib ................................... no
  ICU .................................... no
  Using system libb2 ..................... no
  Built-in copy of the MIME database ..... yes
  Tracing backend ........................ <none>
  Logging backends:
    journald ............................. no
    syslog ............................... no
    slog2 ................................ no
  PCRE2 .................................. yes
    Using system PCRE2 ................... no
  CLONE_PIDFD support in forkfd .......... yes
Qt Sql:
  SQL item models ........................ yes
Qt Network:
  getifaddrs() ........................... yes
  IPv6 ifname ............................ yes
  libproxy ............................... no
  Linux AF_NETLINK ....................... yes
  OpenSSL ................................ no
    Qt directly linked to OpenSSL ........ no
  OpenSSL 1.1 ............................ no
  DTLS ................................... no
  OCSP-stapling .......................... no
  SCTP ................................... no
  Use system proxies ..................... yes
  GSSAPI ................................. no
  Brotli Decompression Support ........... no
Qt Gui:
  Accessibility .......................... yes
  FreeType ............................... yes
    Using system FreeType ................ no
  HarfBuzz ............................... yes
    Using system HarfBuzz ................ no
  Fontconfig ............................. no
  Image formats:
    GIF .................................. yes
    ICO .................................. yes
    JPEG ................................. yes
      Using system libjpeg ............... no
    PNG .................................. yes
      Using system libpng ................ no
  Text formats:
    HtmlParser ........................... yes
    CssParser ............................ yes
    OdfWriter ............................ yes
    MarkdownReader ....................... yes
      Using system libmd4c ............... no
    MarkdownWriter ....................... yes
  EGL .................................... yes
  OpenVG ................................. no
  OpenGL:
    Desktop OpenGL ....................... yes
    OpenGL ES 2.0 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.0 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.1 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.2 ........................ no
  Vulkan ................................. no
  Session Management ..................... yes
Features used by QPA backends:
  evdev .................................. yes
  libinput ............................... no
  INTEGRITY HID .......................... no
  mtdev .................................. no
  tslib .................................. no
  xkbcommon .............................. no
  X11 specific:
    XLib ................................. yes
    XCB Xlib ............................. no
    EGL on X11 ........................... yes
    xkbcommon-x11 ........................ no
QPA backends:
  DirectFB ............................... no
  EGLFS .................................. yes
  EGLFS details:
    EGLFS OpenWFD ........................ no
    EGLFS i.Mx6 .......................... no
    EGLFS i.Mx6 Wayland .................. no
    EGLFS RCAR ........................... no
    EGLFS EGLDevice ...................... no
    EGLFS GBM ............................ no
    EGLFS VSP2 ........................... no
    EGLFS Mali ........................... no
    EGLFS Raspberry Pi ................... no
    EGLFS X11 ............................ no
  LinuxFB ................................ yes
  VNC .................................... yes
  VK_KHR_display ......................... no
  QNX:
    lgmon ................................ no
    IMF .................................. no
  XCB:
    Using system-provided xcb-xinput ..... no
    GL integrations:
      GLX Plugin ......................... no
        XCB GLX .......................... no
      EGL-X11 Plugin ..................... yes
  Windows:
    Direct 2D ............................ no
    Direct 2D 1.1 ........................ no
    DirectWrite .......................... no
    DirectWrite 3 ........................ no
Qt Widgets:
  GTK+ ................................... no
  Styles ................................. Fusion Windows
Qt Testlib:
  Tester for item models ................. yes
Qt PrintSupport:
  CUPS ................................... no
Qt Sql Drivers:
  DB2 (IBM) .............................. no
  InterBase .............................. no
  MySql .................................. no
  OCI (Oracle) ........................... no
  ODBC ................................... no
  PostgreSQL ............................. no
  SQLite ................................. yes
    Using system provided SQLite ......... no
Core tools:
  qmake tool ............................. yes
Qt QML:
  QML network support .................... yes
  QML debugging and profiling support .... yes
  QML just-in-time compiler .............. yes
  QML sequence object .................... yes
  QML XML http request ................... yes
  QML Locale ............................. yes
Qt QML Models:
  QML list model ......................... yes
  QML delegate model ..................... yes
Qt Quick:
  AnimatedImage item ..................... yes
  Canvas item ............................ yes
  Support for Qt Quick Designer .......... yes
  Flipable item .......................... yes
  GridView item .......................... yes
  ListView item .......................... yes
  TableView item ......................... yes
  Path support ........................... yes
  PathView item .......................... yes
  Positioner items ....................... yes
  Repeater item .......................... yes
  ShaderEffect item ...................... yes
  Sprite item ............................ yes
Qt Quick Templates 2:
  Hover support .......................... yes
  Multi-touch support .................... yes
Qt Quick Controls 2:
  Styles ................................. Basic Fusion Imagine Material Universal macOS Windows

JKSH

@CuriousPan said in qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.:

Features used by QPA backends:
...
  xkbcommon .............................. no
  X11 specific:
    XLib ................................. yes
    XCB Xlib ............................. no
    EGL on X11 ........................... yes
    xkbcommon-x11 ........................ no
...
QPA backends:
...
  XCB:
    Using system-provided xcb-xinput ..... no
    GL integrations:
      GLX Plugin ......................... no
        XCB GLX .......................... no
      EGL-X11 Plugin ..................... yes

You need "yes" on all of these. "no" means you were missing the dependencies.

You should:

Clean out your build tree (i.e. delete all files that were not part of the original source code)
Install all the dependencies for Ubuntu at https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git (pay particular attention to the "Libxcb" section)
Run configure again. Make sure you get "yes" on all of the above.
Run make to build Qt.

You should now have all the XCB-related libraries.

CuriousPan

@JKSH, thank you for response. I will try mentioned steps. But is it relevant for Qt6 too?

JKSH

@CuriousPan said in qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.:

@JKSH, thank you for response. I will try mentioned steps. But is it relevant for Qt6 too?

You're welcome.

Yes, I believe the XCB requirements for Qt 5 and Qt 6 are very similar (or even identical)

CuriousPan

@JKSH, thank you for your help. Your advice solved my problems. Steps from the link installed dependencies properly and now everything runs perfectly.

Zayn

Dears,
Could you please help? I'm trying to open turtlesim on my Unbutu 20.04 that I installed on my windows10 computer from the Microsoft store and that is what I'm getting

rosrun turtlesim turtlesim_node
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)

JKSH

@Zayn said in qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.:

Unbutu 20.04 that I installed on my windows10 computer from the Microsoft store

The Windows Subsystem for Linux does not support GUIs. So you cannot run any apps that need XCB.

You have 2 options:

Install a full Ubuntu desktop instead, either on a physical machine or a virtual machine.
Wait until WSLg is released to the general public: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-initial-preview-of-gui-app-support-is-now-available-for-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-2/

Zayn

@JKSH Many thanks

corebonts

@Zayn
I had the same problem running p4merge on WSL2

First, what you have to do is to install an xserver on windows, like VcXSrv.
Then create a shortcut for the xserver (optional)

"C:\Program Files\VcXsrv\vcxsrv.exe" :0 -ac -terminate -lesspointer -multiwindow -clipboard -wgl -dpi auto

Then in Ubuntu set the xserver display in ~/.bashrc

export DISPLAY=$(ip route | awk '{print $3; exit}'):0
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
export XCURSOR_SIZE=16

Then install the xcb dependency (found at https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git )

sudo apt-get install '^libxcb.*-dev' libx11-xcb-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxrender-dev libxi-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev

Maybe from the last not everything is really needed, but after that it worked for me.

homer9

@corebonts Thanks ! That's solves the issue

JKSH

@homer9 said in qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.:

@corebonts Thanks ! That's solves the issue

The workaround posted by @corebonts should no longer be needed. WSL2 now supports GUIs out-of-the-box: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

NicolasZ

@corebonts thx for your solution, solved for me now

mannan_khan

@corebonts Thanks a lot brother it worked for me.

Anuj Srivastava

Thanks corebonts the solution to install '^libxcb' worked for me my application is running smoothly in ubuntu