Ubuntu 14 16 Plots GR - cannot get a plot window

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From a terminal, I launch julia 0.6.3 and try to plot something as follows:

import Plots ; pl=Plots ;
pl.gr(legend=false, format=:png) ;
pl.plot([0,1])

On VNC-connected logins to two different Ubuntu servers (one a VM), I get error messages instead of a plot window popping up.

On my Mac, I get what I expect:

plot01
plot01712×534 23.9 KB

On the Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (VM) server, I get “Qt: XKEYBOARD extension not present” and then a seg fault (which doesn’t crash the julia session).

On the Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (actual) server, I get “QXcbConnection: Falied to initialize XRandr” then the same Qt message as above, then “Unsupported screen format: depth 16, red_mask: 3f, blue_mask: f800”, then “Using RGB16 fallback, if this works your X11 server is reporting a bad screen format.” then “qksqt: Fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server :1.”

On both servers, plotting works fine in a Jupyter notebook. And XWindows pop-ups work on both as well (e.g. xload from a terminal).

Please help!

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Update 1: If I switch the backend to Plotly, I can get plots rendered into a browser tab, but cannot save programmatically as PNG. (I can use the mouse to download as PNG, but this will be tedious and unworkable for my project needs.)

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Could you please install the required packages on those Ubuntu servers as described here:

apt install libxt6 libxrender1 libgl1-mesa-glx
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Those were already installed, so that’s not it. Thanks anyway.

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Could you please try plain X11, e.g.

using Plots
gr(format=:x11)
plot(randn(10))
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Still no joy.

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I use the same underlying OS (LinuxMint) and this is working – check your startups and make sure something with XRandr in the name is active as a startup program. I cannot tell you how to do that, but I do know that fixed things for me.

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Can you open any X11 client? xclock xterm, …

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Yes, as I wrote in the first post -