FAQ#

If you do have a question, head over to Discussion and ask away!

In the meantime, here are a couple things that may help you troubleshoot:

When trying to open the GUI controls, I get an error message like this:

ImportError:
    Importing PySide6 disabled by IPython, which has
    already imported an Incompatible QT Binding: pyqt6

This message indicates that `IPython` has started a main event loop that's incompatible with `PySide6`, the library we use to build the controls GUI. There are two explanations: either you didn't run the right %magic command (or used the equivalent start-up option or config) to initialize the main event loop for `PySide6`, or you have also have `PyQt5` or (more likely) `PyQt6` installed in which case `IPython` latches on to those instead of `PySide6`. Bottom line: make sure you only have `PySide6` installed as window manager and then run this %magic command at start-up:

%gui qt6