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

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What is your operating system?
Endeavouros (rolling distribution)

Here’s what happens: quite a few programs used to say that but they used to open anyway… except some. which still did, somehow… f$¢k it makes no sense.

./shotcut-linux-x86_64-211224.AppImage
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin “wayland” in “” even though it was found.
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, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

/tmp/.mount_shotcuR6sdyN/usr/bin//shotcut : ligne 20 : 18005 Abandon (core dumped)bin/shotcut “$@”

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Wayland is not yet supported. You will need to troubleshoot this further on your own if not using Wayland. Not every Linux distro is going to work out-of-the-box, and I am not even going to try that impossible endeavor. Welcome to Linux fragmentation.

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Of course.
The problem is it used to work (with xwayland) like a bunch of other X-window-native applications. It’s not experimental, not really. That a new upgrade reacted badly to shotcut specifically, is unlikely.
But I’ll try on xfce or another DE.

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Linux is free, you can sideload a Ubuntu for free and use shotcut in that, and then switch Endeavouros whenever you want.

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If you distro has flatpak support, then try getting the flatpak on flathub, it is working fine on Fedora Linux 35, there is using wayland as default display server.

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