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How are features and bug fixes incorporated into ParaView? As with all open source projects, adding features and fixing bugs takes developer effort. That effort may originate from volunteer community contributors, or through paid professional services offered by companies like K…	2	1309	February 15, 2024
About the FAQ category	0	1007	June 4, 2020
I'm using Ubuntu 22 and ParaView reports "Could not load the Qt platform plugin 'xcb'"	1	2452	September 9, 2025
I'm unable to run pvserver osmesa, it fails with a libglapi.so.0 error	0	32	June 2, 2025
I'm trying to install ParaView but do not know where to start.	0	199	January 23, 2025
I'm using Ubuntu and ParaView osmesa binary crashes on rendering	1	404	January 20, 2025
I'm using Ubuntu and I am unable to open a .vtp/.vtu/.vti file that was working previously	1	113	October 8, 2024
I'm using WSL and paraFOAM does not work	0	1242	June 5, 2024
How do I use three different arrays as components of one vector field?	1	5382	October 31, 2022
How do I do client/server visualization on a remote cluster or supercomputer with ParaView?	2	2463	July 29, 2022
I want to visualize my OpenFOAM simulation results with ParaView but I'm confused, which version should I use ?	1	16216	June 7, 2022
I've just opened my dataset. I can't add filters, and everything is greyed out	1	8684	June 8, 2022
I've never used ParaView before. It looks like complex software! Can you help me figure out the basics?	3	1342	June 3, 2022
I can't find an option/parameter/control in a dialog, or tab (such as the Properties tab)	0	1574	June 4, 2020
I can't find the nightly builds in the ParaView download page	0	732	August 28, 2020
How do I add a VTK filter that isn't already in ParaView?	0	838	April 3, 2021
I am using ParaView on Windows 10 and the application resolution is low with big icons !	0	3766	February 2, 2021
I am using ParaView 5.8.0 on Windows 10, and my GUI is completely broken, with missing icons! What is happening?	11	4225	September 18, 2020
I want to share data here, how can I do that ?	0	718	September 9, 2020
How do I load Ansys Fluent results into ParaView?	0	4578	July 17, 2020
ParaView does not work on my remote computer with ssh -X/Y! (OpenGL Errors)	0	1074	June 10, 2020
On Fedora, I can't see or find filters in the Alphabetical list!	0	925	June 5, 2020

How are features and bug fixes incorporated into ParaView?

As with all open source projects, adding features and fixing bugs takes developer effort. That effort may originate from volunteer community contributors, or through paid professional services offered by companies like K…