How to change style in PyQt5 - pyqt

I am writing a Qt5 application by using PyQt.
I would like to understand how to change the style of the entire application.
The old Qt4 calls like:
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
app.setStyle(QStyleFactory.create('Cleanlooks'))
and the suggested method here does nothing.
Are they deprecated?
https://blog.qt.io/blog/2012/10/30/cleaning-up-styles-in-qt5-and-adding-fusion/
Thank you!

may be Cleanlooks is no longer available on your system. By QStyleFactory.keys() you can ask the available styles on your system. On Ubuntu 16.04 and pyqt5 i only get:
['Windows', 'GTK+', 'Fusion']
edit:
here you find the qstyleplugin
containing 6 additional styles, you have to compile it by yourself
edit:
on ubuntu 16.04, python3.5 i got it working by installing the styleplugins to QT5 and compile pyqt5 from source against this QT5:
install QT 5.7 by onlineinstaller
in installationdirectory search qmake, in my case /opt/Qt/5.7/gcc_64/bin/qmake
download qtstyleplugin to an arbitrary directory git clone https://code.qt.io/qt/qtstyleplugins.git and install it:
cd qtstyleplugins
/opt/Qt/5.7/gcc_64/bin/qmake # the qmake from the fresh installation
make
make install
now there is a folder „styles“ in /opt/Qt/5.7/gcc_64/plugins/ containing the additional styles.
download sip-source, compile and install it
download pyqt5-source, compile and install it, in the step python3 configure.py provide the qmake from the QT5-Installation by the --qmake-option and look in the output for missing dependencies.
Now the following styles are available:
['bb10dark', 'bb10bright', 'cleanlooks', 'cde', 'motif', 'plastique', 'Windows', 'Fusion']
i got an sip-error:
RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v11.0 to v11.2 but the PyQt5.QtCore module requires API v11.3
to prevent it, run sudo apt-get purge python3-sip before installing sip as described here

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OSError: cannot load library 'gobject-2.0-0': Additionally, ctypes.util.find_library() did not manage to locate a library called 'gobject-2.0-0'

While installing saleor, I have encountered with the below issue.
OSError: cannot load library 'gobject-2.0-0': error 0x7e. Additionally, ctypes.util.find_library() did not manage to locate a library called 'gobject-2.0-0'
I have tried all the solutions given in stack overflow as well as git. Nothing seems to be working.
Can someone please help me out.
Tools installed:
python: 3.8 / 3.9
GTK3
I have also updated the GTK3\bin in the top of the environment variables as said in the other solutions.
Download the https://www.msys2.org/ and install it.
a) install gtk package and python bundles from MSYS2 terminal. We can start this with command shell. and pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3
b) pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python-gobject
Update your $XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS to the installed path for example :
'C:/msys64/mingw64/share'
Reboot your system and check, it will work.
Another option that worked for me is :
Install MSYS2 from https://www.msys2.org.
Install GTK3 DLL Dependencies from here : https://github.com/tschoonj/GTK-for-Windows-Runtime-Environment-Installer/releases
And then set environment path variables to your windows variable path file.
WEASYPRINT_DLL_DIRECTORIES=C:\GTK3\bin

PyQt5 stubs files

I've just started a PyQt5 project that is currently running in a virtualenv.
PyQt5 was installed using a classic pip install pyqt5.
I want to type check my application using mypy.
But when I run it, I get an error telling me that there are no stubs file for PyQt5.
myapp/__main__.py:3: error: No library stub file for module 'PyQt5.QtWidgets
I've checked the site-package of my virtualenv, and indeed, there aren't any .pyi file in it.
Checking the documentation, I see that if compiled, stub files can be generated (and could at least exists beginning with PyQt5.6, I'm using 5.10).
Is there a way to obtain those file without the need to manually compile the library ?
I had the same problem with PyQt5. So I decided to put up PyQt5-stubs which contains the stub files for the main PyQt5 modules.
You can install it with pip:
$ pip install pyqt5-stubs
Another solution for you would be to change to Qt for Python (PySide2). They provide proper type annotations.
Not currently.
PEP 561, which specifies how packages should indicate they supply type information, was recently accepted. (Full disclosure, I am the author).
PyQt5 will need to become compliant with the PEP, and then as long as you are using mypy >=0.600, everything should work as expected.

Deployement Qt error [duplicate]

I wrote application for linux which uses Qt5.
But when I am trying to launch it on the linux without Qt SDK installed, the output in console is:
Failed to load platform plugin "xcb". Available platforms are:
How can I fix this? May be I need to copy some plugin file?
When I use ubuntu with Qt5 installed, but I rename Qt directory, the same problem occurs. So, it uses some file from Qt directory...
UPDATE:
when I create in the app dir "platforms" folder with the file libqxcb.so, the app still doesnot start, but the error message changes:
Failed to load platform plugin "xcb". Available platforms are:
xcb
How can this happen? How can platform plugin be available but can't be loaded?
Use ldd (man ldd) to show shared library dependencies. Running this on libqxcb.so
.../platforms$ ldd libqxcb.so
shows that xcb depends on libQt5DBus.so.5 in addition to libQt5Core.so.5 and libQt5Gui.so.5 (and many other system libs). Add libQt5DBus.so.5 to your collection of shared libs and you should be ready to move on.
As was posted earlier, you need to make sure you install the platform plugins when you deploy your application. Depending on how you want to deploy things, there are two methods to tell your application where the platform plugins (e.g. platforms/plugins/libqxcb.so) are at runtime which may work for you.
The first is to export the path to the directory through the QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH variable.
QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=path/to/plugins ./my_qt_app
or
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=path/to/plugins
./my_qt_app
The other option, which I prefer is to create a qt.conf file in the same directory as your executable. The contents of which would be:
[Paths]
Plugins=/path/to/plugins
More information regarding this can be found here and at using qt.conf
I tried to start my binary, compiled with Qt 5.7, on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS where Qt 5.5 is preinstalled. It didn't work.
At first, I inspected the binary itself with ldd as was suggested here, and satisfied all "not found" dependencies. Then this notorious This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" error was thrown.
How to resolve this in Linux
Firstly you should create platforms directory where your binary is, because it is the place where Qt looks for XCB library. Copy libqxcb.so there. I wonder why authors of other answers didn't mention this.
Then you may want to run your binary with QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 environment variable set to check which dependencies of libqxcb.so are not satisfied. (You may also use ldd for this as suggested in the accepted answer).
The command output may look like this:
me#xerus:/media/sf_Qt/Package$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 ./Binary
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so"
Found metadata in lib /media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so, metadata=
{
"IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
"MetaData": {
"Keys": [
"xcb"
]
},
"className": "QXcbIntegrationPlugin",
"debug": false,
"version": 329472
}
Got keys from plugin meta data ("xcb")
loaded library "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so"
QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so" : "Cannot load library /media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so: (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5DBus.so.5: version `Qt_5' not found (required by ./libQt5XcbQpa.so.5))"
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".
Available platform plugins are: xcb.
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted (core dumped)
Note the failing libQt5DBus.so.5 library. Copy it to your libraries path, in my case it was the same directory where my binary is (hence LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.). Repeat this process until all dependencies are satisfied.
P.S. thanks to the author of this answer for QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1.
I tried the main parts of each answer, to no avail. What finally fixed it for me was to export the following environment variables:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:~/Qt/5.9.1/gcc_64/lib
QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=~/Qt/5.9.1/gcc_64/plugins/
Ubuntu 16.04 64bit.
I got the problem for apparently no reasons. The night before I watched a movie on my VideoLan instance, that night I would like to watch another one with VideoLan. VLC just didn't want to run because of the error into the question.
I google a bit and I found the solution it solved my problem: from now on, VLC is runnable just like before. The solution is this comand:
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms/ /usr/bin/
I am not able to explain what are its consequencies, but I know it creates some missing symbolic link.
Since version 5, Qt uses a platform abstraction system (QPA) to abstract from the underlying platform.
The implementation for each platform is provided by plugins. For X11 it is the XCB plugin. See Qt for X11 requirements for more information about the dependencies.
There might be many causes to this problem. The key is to use
export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1
before you run your Qt application. Then, inspect the output, which will point you to the direction of the error. In my case it was:
Cannot load library /opt/nao/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (/opt/nao/bin/../lib/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16))
But that is solved in different threads. See for instance https://stackoverflow.com/a/50097275/2408964.
Probably this information will help. I was on Ubuntu 18.04 and when I tried to install Krita, using the ppa method, I got this error:
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "".
Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, wayland-egl, wayland, xcb.
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted
I tried all the solutions that I found in this thread and other webs without any success.
Finally, I found a post where the author mention that is possible to activate the debugging tool of qt5 using this simple command:
export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1
After adding this command I run again krita I got the same error, however this time I knew the cause of that error.
libxcb-xinerama.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
This error prevents to the "xcb" to load properly. So, the solution will be install the `libxcb-xinerama.so.0" right? However, when I run the command:
sudo apt install libxcb-xinerama
The lib was already installed. Now what Teo? Well, then I used an old trick :) Yeah, that one --reinstall
sudo apt install --reinstall libxcb-xinerama
TLDR: This last command solved my problem.
I ran into a very similar problem with the same error message. First, debug some by turning on the Qt Debug printer with the command line command:
export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1
and rerun the application. For me this revealed the following:
"Cannot load library /home/.../miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxkbcommon-x11.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
"Cannot load library /home/.../miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so: (libxkbcommon-x11.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
Indeed, I was missing libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 and libxkbcommon-x11.so.0. Next, check your architecture using dpkg from the linux command line. (For me, the command "arch" gave a different and unhelpful result)
dpkg --print-architecture #result for me: amd64
I then googled "libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 ubuntu 18.04 amd64", and likewise for libxkbcommon-x11.so.0, which yields those packages on packages.ubuntu.com. That told me, in retrospect unsurprisingly, I'm missing packages called libxkbcommon-x11-0 and libxkbcommon0, and that installing those packages will include the needed files, but the dev versions will not. Then the solution:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxkbcommon0
sudo apt-get install libxkbcommon-x11-0
So, I spent about a day trying to figure out what was the issue; tried all the proposed solutions, but none of that worked like installing xcb libs or exporting Qt plugins folder. The solution that suggested to use QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 to debug the issue didn't provide me a direct insight like in the answer - instead I was getting something about unresolved symbols within Qt5Core.
That gave me a hint, though: what if it's trying to use different files from different Qt installations? On my machine I had standard version installed in /home/username/Qt/ and some local builds within my project that I compiled by myself (I have other custom built kits as well in other locations). Whenever I tried to use any of the kits (installed by Qt maintenance tool or built by myself), I would get an "xcb error".
The solution was simple: provide the Qt path through CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and not though Qt5_DIR as I did, and it solved the problem. Example:
cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/username/Qt/5.11.1/gcc_64
I faced the same problem when after installing Viber. It had all required qt libraries in /opt/viber/plugins/.
I checked dependencies of /opt/viber/plugins/platforms/libqxcb.so and found missing dependencies. They were libxcb-render.so.0, libxcb-image.so.0, libxcb-icccm.so.4, libxcb-xkb.so.1
So I resolved my issue by installing missing packages with this libraries:
apt-get install libxcb-xkb1 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-image0 libxcb-render-util0
I like the solution with qt.conf.
Put qt.conf near to the executable with next lines:
[Paths]
Prefix = /path/to/qtbase
And it works like a charm :^)
For a working example:
[Paths]
Prefix = /home/user/SDKS/Qt/5.6.2/5.6/gcc_64/
The documentation on this is here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt-conf.html
All you need to do is
pip uninstall PyQt5
and
conda install pyqt
Most of the problem of pyqt can be fixed by this simplest solution.
In my case, I needed to deploy two Qt apps on an Ubuntu virtualbox guest. One was command-line ("app"), the other GUI_based ("app_GUI").
I used "ldd app" to find out what the required libs are, and copied them
to the Ubuntu guest.
While the command-line executable "app" worked ok, the GUI-based executable crashed, giving
the "Failed to load platform plugin "xcb" error. I checked ldd for libxcb.so, but this too had no missing dependencies.
The problem seemed to be that while I did copy all the right libraries I accidentally had copied also libraries that were already present at the guest system.. meaning that (a) they were unnecessary to copy them in the first place and (b) worse, copying them produced incompatibilities between the install libraries.
Worse still, they were undetectable by ldd like I said..
The solution? Make sure that you copy libraries shown as missing by ldd and absolutely no extra libraries.
In my case missing header files were the reason libxcb was not built by Qt. Installing them according to https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git#Linux.2FX11 resolved the issue:
yum install libxcb libxcb-devel xcb-util xcb-util-devel mesa-libGL-devel libxkbcommon-devel
Folks trying to get this started on Ubuntu 20.04 please try to run this and see if this solves the problem. This worked for me
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y libxcb-xinerama0
I link all Qt stuff statically to the generic Linux builds of my open source projects. It makes life a bit easier. You just need to build static versions of Qt libraries first. Of course this cannot be applied to closed source software due to licensing issues. The deployment of Qt5 apps on Linux is currently a bit problematic, because Ubuntu 12.04, for example, doesn't have Qt5 libraries in the package repositories.
I had this problem, and on a hunch I removed the Qt Configs from my environment. I.e.,
rm -rf ~/.config/Qt*
Then I started qtcreator and it reconfigured itself with the existing state of the machine. It no longer remembered where my projects were, but that just meant I had to browse to them "for the first time" again.
But more importantly it built itself a coherent set of library paths, so I could rebuild and run my project executables again without the xcb or qxcb libraries going missing.
I faced the same situation, but on a Ubuntu 20.04 VM.
TL;DR: Check file permissions.
What I did:
I copied the Qt libs required to /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ and added it to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
I copied the platforms folder from Qt to my application directory and added it to QT_PLUGIN_PATH
I ran ldd on the executable and in the offending libqxcb.so (ldd libqxcb.so), and it complains about some dependencies although ldconfig listed them as found.
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffee19af000)
libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 => not found
libfontconfig.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f7cb18fb000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f7cb183c000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f7cb1820000)
libQt5Gui.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5 (0x00007f7cb0fd4000)
libQt5DBus.so.5 => not found
I used export QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 for further info. It complains about missing files, although they are there.
What I found:
For some reason, when copying to the VM through the shared folder the files permissions were not the correct ones.
Thus, I ran: sudo chmod 775 * on the libs and voilà.
I solved the issue through this https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp/discussions/300
pip uninstall opencv-python
pip install opencv-python-headless
This seems to have been a problem with the cv2 Python package and how it loops in Qt
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/...."adapt-it"..../qt5/plugins/platforms/ /usr/bin/
It creates the symbolic link it's missed. Good for QT ! Good for VLC !!

How to provide Qt installation path to configure?

I got a source code from github. It writen by Qt, and I have installed the Qt from the Qt official website. But when I run ./configure. It said error: cannot find QtGui. What can I do? I don't want to install duplicated through the apt-get. I set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .zshrc. It's not work.
The usual way is to install dependencies through apt-get. If you install them manually, you need to resolve path issues by your own.
Since you've chosen the dark path, now you need to manually inform configure where your QT include files and libraries are located:
export CPPFLAGS='-I/qt/path/include'
export LDFLAGS='-L/qt/path/lib/'
./configure
One-liner:
env CPPFLAGS='-I/qt/path/include' LDFLAGS='-L/qt/path/lib/' ./configure
More info is here.

Python: How to Install gdbm for dbm.gnu

In the Python 3 docs, it states that the dbm module will use gdbm if it's installed. In my script I use from dbm.gnu import open as dbm_open to try and import the module. It always returns with the exception ImportError: No module named '_gdbm'. I've gone to the gnu website and have downloaded the latest version. I installed it using
./configure --enable-libgdbm-compat, make; make check; make install, and it installed with no errors. I can access the man page for the library but I still can't import it into Python 3.5.2 (Anaconda). How do I install the Python module for gdbm?
I got similar issue though I am not sure which platform you are using.
Steps are:
look for file _gdbm.cpython-"python version"-.so example file: _gdbm.cpython-39-darwin.so
Once you find the path check which python version in directory path.
Try creating same python venv.
Execute your code.
Before this make sure you have install appropriate gdbm version installed on host machine, for mac it's different for ubuntu it's different name.

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