Hello everyone,
It’s 2026… Some Linux distributions are already using Wayland as the default, and some are likely Wayland-only by now. And current winbox (tested latest 4.1) still can NOT run natively on wayland:
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 ./WinBox
ignoring "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3" since plugins are disabled in static builds
Warning: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" (:0, )
Fatal: 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.
(:0, )
I understand that workarounds still exist - like running the application through XWayland, which works anyway - but wouldn’t it be better to support Wayland natively?
Please… I can accept the fact that Qt is statically compiled into your binary, but what is the problem with including the Wayland platform plugin as well? Its absence causes a chain of other issues - for example, scaling problems when using multiple displays, especially when one of them is HiDPI with scaling enabled. In those cases, without native Wayland support, WinBox looks really bad. Winbox have ugly fonts, just similar case as OrcaSlicer, look:
This has already been reported several times before (@lukonuts, @andar1an, @Larsa):
Dear developers… it really doesn’t seem like a huge effort to include this driver and be done with it.
