I’ve been trying to install and run ParaView on Ubuntu 22.04 (CPU-only system with Mesa/llvmpipe), but I consistently encounter the same issue:
When I launch ParaView, the window opens but remains completely blank and transparent — no splash screen, no menus, no render view. Just a transparent shell.
Here’s what I’ve tried:
Tested ParaView versions 5.12.1, 5.11.1, and 5.10
Used both the standard (GUI) builds and OSMesa headless builds
Installed and confirmed working Mesa (llvmpipe) with glxgears
Set the following environment variables:
Thanks, but i already tried that too. I can only run the headless versions, without GUI. So i suspect it is the graphics.
I’ve tested the following:
ParaView versions: 5.8, 5.10, 5.11.1, 5.12.1, 6.0
Also tried Flatpak version
Confirmed that glxgears and glxinfo work
Forced software rendering with:
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb
./paraview
Only the headless builds (OSMesa) work — I can use pvbatch and pvpython without issues
At this point I suspect the issue is with Mesa or Intel graphics compatibility, as the GUI seems to fail silently when trying to initialize the OpenGL context.