Can't Open ParaView 5.11.0 With FreeCad 0.20.1

[EveningSkyPerson]

Hello -- Thank You for any help in advance. Using CAELinux, In FreeCAD 0.20.1 I am trying to open ParaView 5.11.0. In FreeCAD under Edit/Preferences/cfdOF/ParaView executable path, (using the little box on the right) I put '/home/mike/Applications/ParaView-5.11.0-RC1-osmesa-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/bin/mpiexec'. In the status box of the CFD tab it says 'Paraview started'. But it never opens. Please Help!

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OS: CAElinux2020 (XFCE/xubuntu)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.1.29410 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.20.1)
Hash: f5d13554ecc7a456fb6e970568ae5c74ba727563
Python 3.10.5, Qt 5.15.4, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.6.2
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods: 
  * CfdOF 1.19.1
  * Plot 2022.4.17

[chrisb]

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[oliveroxtoby]

Hello -- Thank You for any help in advance. Using CAELinux, In FreeCAD 0.20.1 I am trying to open ParaView 5.11.0. In FreeCAD under Edit/Preferences/cfdOF/ParaView executable path, (using the little box on the right) I put '/home/mike/Applications/ParaView-5.11.0-RC1-osmesa-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/bin/mpiexec'. In the status box of the CFD tab it says 'Paraview started'. But it never opens. Please Help!

You should select 'paraview' rather than 'mpiexec' as the executable.

[EveningSkyPerson]

Hello -- Thank You so much that some one of your horsepower would reply with an answer to my question. I tried using 'paraview' at the end off the paraview executable path instead of 'mpiexec', but got the same result -- in the status box of the CFD mesh tab it says 'Paraview started' , but it never opens. I am following 'Run a CFD analysis in CAELinux' video by Joko Engineering, but he is using ParaView 5.9.1 -- I was not able to find that to download it if that makes a difference. Thank You so much for your time.

Michael Farneti