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schnupferich

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Registered: 2023-10-24

Posts: 14

wireshark not working under i3 [SOLVED]

i had this problem already using another application, couldnt really figure out what the problem was. Wayland is installed on this pc (i was playing around with it using another window manager), but my main window manager is i3 with x. After playing with wayland, my wireshark stopped working, and the following appears:

 ** (wireshark:27555) 17:15:26.291730 [GUI WARNING] -- Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
 ** (wireshark:27555) 17:15:26.291755 [GUI ERROR] -- This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

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

 ** (wireshark:27555) Aborting on fatal log level exception
[1]    27555 IOT instruction (core dumped)  wireshark

thanks for any help provided, i still have to learn a lot regarding linux

Last edited by schnupferich (2024-11-13 17:38:06)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,289

Re: wireshark not working under i3 [SOLVED]

You probably set the QT_QPA_PLATFORM environment variable to wayland somewhere for no reason (... wayland is the default Qt automatically checks for at first, with fallbacks to xcb, all without you explicitly configuring this). Find out where and get rid of it.

Last edited by V1del (2024-11-13 16:30:54)

schnupferich

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Registered: 2023-10-24

Posts: 14

Re: wireshark not working under i3 [SOLVED]

You probably set the QT_QPA_PLATFORM environment variable to wayland somewhere for no reason (... wayland is the default Qt automatically checks for at first, with fallbacks to xcb, all without you explicitly configuring this). Find out where and get rid of it.

Thanks, that worked, i had it in /etc/environment for some reason. I deleted it, but now my touchpad stopped working for some reason...