Zorin core 18.1 won't run appimage

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I'm trying to open Icedrive's appimage with no luck. It should have permissions and it's allowed to run as a program, but if I open it and allow it to run, nothing happens at all.

I know the image should work since I could run it with mint no problem, and this is a fresh install so there shouldn't be any clutter affecting this either.

I'm a beginner and don't even know how to troubleshoot with just nothing, so... help, pls?

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If you launch from terminal, does it show any errors?

./Icedrive.AppImage --verbose

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It says:

Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
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: xcb.
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Ah, it is Qt built application, and Wayland support is lacking.
You have two choices:

  • Use Xorg (mature and stable) instead of Wayland (New and incomplete... Well... Wayland is Seventeen Years Old... but "new" in adoption. Still incomplete.)
  • Install a variety of dependencies and see if they work.

If you opt for option one, logging out, then selecting Zorin on Xorg from the Gear Icon (If you do not see the gear icon, click "sign in as another user", then it should appear - make selection, then login as normal.)

If you opt for option two:

sudo apt install libxcb1 libxcb-util1 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-image0

Then test launching the appimage.

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With Xorg it doesn't open either but says:

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: xcb.

I'll try option two to see if that works...

Edit// Well, option 2 didn't work either, everything was in order already

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I did some more searching (now with better knowledge of the issue with the reports, thank you) and someone had found a solution this. It was to reinstall libxcb:

sudo apt-get install libxcb-xinerama0

Now it works like it should

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