# ParaView GUI is blank

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-gui-is-blank/13780
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 23, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-gui-is-blank/13780 "2024-01-23T21:26:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/andy_bauer/32/5442_2.png) [@Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andy_Bauer)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-gui-is-blank/13780/1 "2024-01-23T21:26:09Z")

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Hi,

I built the latest Qt through the ParaView superbuild and then built the latest ParaView separately. When I try to run the GUI I get a blank:

 ![screenshot](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/0/008e385c679680f130bfc4e99e2c7914ea3585cc.png)

The information that I’m getting is:

```auto
[acbauer@oa debugUsingMake]$ bin/paraview
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
warning: In unknown, line 0
warning: QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform offscreen surface, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled

```

I can run glxgears and even the ParaView GUI from an installer. I can also run Qt’s designer that’s in the superbuild’s install/bin directory. This is on a RHEL 8 machine building with GCC 8.5.0. Any ideas?

Thanks,  
Andy

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### Author: ![Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/andy_bauer/32/5442_2.png) [@Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andy_Bauer)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-gui-is-blank/13780/2 "2024-01-24T18:39:52Z")

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Note that I’m on a RHEL 8 system using the Nouveau drivers instead of the NVIDIA drivers. What seems to have solved the problem is installing some combination of (some of these may not be needed):

```auto
libXinerama.x86_64 libXinerama-devel.x86_64 libX11-xcb.x86_64 libxcb-devel.x86_64 xcb-util.x86_64 xcb-util-cursor.x86_64 xcb-util-devel.x86_64 xcb-util-image.x86_64 xcb-util-renderutil-devel.x86_64 xcb-util-wm.x86_64 xcb-util-wm-devel.x86_64

```

After doing this I did a fresh build of Qt5 through the ParaView superbuild and then rebuilt ParaView itself.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-gui-is-blank/13780/3 "2024-01-25T08:43:34Z")

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Right, these are the Qt dependency: [Qt for X11 Requirements | Qt 6.6](https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/linux-requirements.html)