Gui is not showing menu bar

Hi,

on my notebook paraview 5.4.0 (stable) for windows 64 bit is not showing the menu bar e.g. "file", "edit", "view",... Like on the picture below.

Some Details about my software/hardware:

• Paraview Version: 5.3.0 and 5.4.0 (i tried both)
• OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit Version 1703
• Graphics: Intel HD 520
• Graphics Driver: 21.20.16.4678 (date: 17/05/2017)

Any information missing?

I tried it also with my other notebook, same OS, but Intel HD 4000 and it works. Any idea what the problem could be? Thanks!

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Can you get it to show by minimizing and then maximizing the window?

No this does not help. The same problem with a maximized window. It seems like the fonts or the inner window is "zoomed" because the fonts are a bit diffused.

Hmm, strange. Since the problem appears with 5.3 and 5.4, I would guess this is caused by some interaction of Qt 5 with your graphics card. Do you have a secondary graphics processor on that system, e.g., NVIDIA or ATI? If so, try using the control panel on your system to ensure ParaView uses it and see if the problem persists.

Hm... I have only the Intel 520 graphic card installed. As you mentioned this problem appears only with qt5. qt4 (ParaView 5.2.0) is normally working...

mentioned in issue #17501 (closed)

The same here (paraview 5.4, Windows 10, Intel 620 graphics). It appeared after my graphics driver was updated.

@cory-quammen Notice that we are having this issue also, as logged in #17501 (closed). Not sure how Kitware can fix it if you can't replicate it.

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Very likely a Qt bug. We are updating the version of Qt used on the build machines, so we should have nightly builds with Qt 5.9.1 available soon. It would be great if folks could see if the problem persists with 5.9.1. I'll post an update when they are available to test.

I can repro win10 + Intel 530. I have a Optimus laptop, and if I force the Nvidia graphics card, the problem goes away. Current Intel driver version is listed as 21.20.16.4664 in ParaView info. Repros both with ParaView 5.3, 5.4 and fairly recent ParaView master built with QT 5.9.1. Does not repro with 5.2.

Seems like this is pointing towards Intel + QT?

Sounds like it. See https://communities.intel.com/thread/116003

@aron.helser @cory-quammen We are also seeing this bug, replicated in bug number #17501 (closed), on Linux. OpenGL vendor is NVIDIA. OGL version is 54.5.0 NVIDIA 352.68. Quadro 3000M/PCLe/SSE2. This is with ParaView 5.4.0.

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Clearly, this is an Intel + Qt issue as reported in the thread linked by @cory-quammen .

I had the same issue with my DELL XPS 15 Laptop with an Intel HD Graphics 530 and a nVidia GeForce GTX 960M, since ParaView 5.3. Unfortunately, I cannot install the last official Intel drivers that seem to solve the issue because the drivers for the graphic board must be provided by DELL, and last version of DELL drivers for the Intel graphics board do not solve the problem.

But the solution is the following: just force ParaView to be run with the nVidia board instead of the Intel one. This can be done in the nVidia configuration panel. Add a configuration for the paraview executable and choose to use the NVIDIA High performance processor instead of the global default. Run ParaView and tada, it finally works!

@demarle @mwestphal @tcoulange

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Just a thought here. Since paraview client can be heavy on the rendering side, shouldn't it run autamatically with the GPU and not the chipser if possible. Windows nvidia driver seems to have a white list of application, shouldn't we be on it ? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16823372/forcing-machine-to-use-dedicated-graphics-card/39047129

(Or we can rename paraview.exe into Doom3.exe and it should work )

mentioned in issue #17853 (closed)

mentioned in issue #17473 (closed)

mentioned in issue #17860 (closed)