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Old 06-29-2017, 11:18 PM   #1
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Calibre 3.1.1. not working LinuxMint 18.2
I have installed calibre on my computer using linuxmint 18.2 (based on ubuntu 16.04) and when I try to launch it I get the following in my terminal, but nothing else happens:

QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Dialog/MessageBox) Negative sizes (-492131204,-492131604) are not possible
QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Dialog/MessageBox) Negative sizes (-492131204,-492131604) are not possible
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 2 (BadValue), sequence: 386, resource id: 0, major code: 1 (CreateWindow), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 387, resource id: 73400324, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 388, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 389, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 390, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 392, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 393, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 394, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 398, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 402, resource id: 73400324, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 403, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 404, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 405, resource id: 73400324, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 409, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 410, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 413, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 414, resource id: 73400324, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
QWidget::setMinimumSize: (Dialog/MessageBox) Negative sizes (-492131204,-492131604) are not possible

Older version of Calibre work fine.

Any help would be awesome.
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Old 06-30-2017, 01:30 AM   #2
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This is some incompatibility between Qt 5.6 which calibre 3 uses and your X server. Basically, Qt for some reason gets the wrong/missing DPI information for the screen, which in trun causes it to use absurd/negative sizes for windows, and that causes those errors.

Unfortunately, I know of no way to find the root cause of this. If I had to guess, I'd say it is related to the new high DPI support in Qt. You can running calibre like this, it might work:

QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO=1 calibre
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Old 07-01-2017, 12:22 AM   #3
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I wound up removing 3.1.1. and installing 2.85. Until LM updates the x server on the xfce version I think thats best. Thanks
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Old 07-02-2017, 02:28 PM   #4
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This solution did not work for me. Could there be any other things to try to get v3 to work under these conditions?

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Old 07-02-2017, 02:40 PM   #5
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I updated to Mint 18.2 Cinnamon today have no problems with calibre 3.2.1.

I suspect that the posters having problems are using NVIDIA graphics card, or the legacy Intel display driver that is no longer supported.



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Code:
SDA ~ $ calibre-debug -g
calibre 3.2.1  embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Linux-4.8.0-53-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '4.8.0-53-generic', '#56~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 16 01:18:56 UTC 2017')
Python 2.7.12
Linux: ('debian', 'stretch/sid', '')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (6, 5, 4) && Modify ePub (1, 3, 13) && EpubSplit (2, 2, 1) && Barnes & Noble (1, 2, 14) && Baen (0, 0, 3) && Goodreads (1, 1, 12) && Quality Check (1, 9, 11) && Generate Cover (1, 5, 21) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 81, 4) && Diaps Editing Toolbag (0, 3, 4) && Hyphenate This! (0, 0, 8)
Turning on automatic hidpi scaling
devicePixelRatio: 1.0
logicalDpi: 96.0 x 96.0
physicalDpi: 96.3318518519 x 96.0945812808
Using calibre Qt style: True
Starting up...
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
DEBUG:    0.0 get_baen_id: match_group= None
Started up in 4.52 seconds with 3100 books
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Old 07-07-2017, 06:32 PM   #7
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I have been using all versions 3 (3.3 now) on Mint Cinnamon 18, 18.1 and 18.2 with the Nividia driver and no problem (apart from having to set the GTK theming flag)
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Old 07-10-2017, 05:25 PM   #8
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For what it is worth, QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO=1 ebook-viewer Makes the icons on the left hand side a reasonable size on my laptop. They are over an inch in size with default settings (Slackware-current, Qt5.9)
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Old 08-13-2017, 08:29 AM   #9
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Having the same problem (silly size messages) with Ubuntu Studio 17. Fortunately the suggested solution (QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO=1) works just fine here.

Thanks for the info, Kovid!


I may have spoken a little too soon - Calibre does throw an error on exiting,

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"

but this doesn't (so far) appear to affect the operation of the program.
Last edited by NewEnglandLimey; 08-13-2017 at 08:44 AM. Reason: update
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