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@7thCore You missed the point of my comment. Of course the app "works". It just doesn't work natively on Wayland. Meaning the app itself doesn't run on Wayland, not that it doesn't run on a Wayland session. There is a difference.

It uses XWayland on a Wayland session.

If you try to force it, it gives that error I wrote below.

I will write to Mikrotik, hopefully they plan to support Wayland soon.

@LarryDave

Works perfectly fine on KDE and Wayland on my system. Also to start the app from the command line, the command should be /usr/bin/env --unset=QT_QPA_PLATFORM /usr/bin/WinBox

Your problem may be that your QT_QPA_PLATFORM variable is set to wayland while it should be unset.

Doesn't work natively on Wayland. I doubt this is a packaging or AUR issue as downloading the application from MikroTik's website also produce the same error.

https://mikrotik.com/download/winbox (Download the v4.0beta42 native Linux 64-bit version)

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, )
Aborted                    (core dumped) QT_QPA_PLATFORM="wayland" ./WinBox

I would've preferred an important application like this to support Wayland natively in 2025. Especially since it deals with networking.

keyboard input stopped working
kde6/wayland
i dont use anyhing special i aware of...

welder@triumph:~$ WinBox 
Warning: failed to compile a keymap (:0, )
APP,INFO: version: "4.0beta35"

Just as note, I always see this warning from fuzzel (App launcher) in the log

/usr/share/pixmaps/winbox.png: PNG is too large (1024x1024); downscaling using a less precise filter

Is it an issue noted by others? Anyway, thank you very much to maintain this aur.

About the input methods, they just replied:

Thank you for your request, I will talk to our developer about this and if there will be more, similar requests like yours, we will see how this can be added in future versions.

if you want the support of input methods of WINBOX 4, please feel free to open a feature request ticket to the MikroTik at: https://help.mikrotik.com/servicedesk/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/create/6

can anyone make any input method works on this version 4 ? what I have tried: QT_IM_MODULE/GTK_IM_MODULE/XMODIFIERS to ibus or fcitx makes no difference

As written, I had xdg-utils-handlr from the AUR (it was linked in Wiki).

However, I now uninstalled it and added the overwrite to ~/.local/bin as written by the maintainer.

So, nothing you should fix.

extra/xdg-utils 1.2.1-1 [installed] usr/bin/xdg-icon-resource

That binary should be there. Try reinstalling extra/xdg-utils.

I'm getting this error on install:

/tmp/alpm_C3eOyo/.INSTALL: line 3: xdg-icon-resource: command not found
error: command failed to execute correctly

Not sure, if that's a general error which I've never seen before. I have xdg-utils-handlr installed which provides xdg-utils but not the above binary.

However, the icon seems to be recognized by Gnome Wayland.