Multipass.gui throws Segmentation fault (core dumped) on wayland

[nikelborm]

Describe the bug I tried to run multipass.gui. It exited immediately with Segmentation fault (core dumped)

To Reproduce How, and what happened?

1. Install and open latest gnome on wayland
2. Run multipass.gui

Expected behavior I expect it to work without specifying additional env var. So it means I expect it isn't so heavily dependent on X.org when the only thing it renders is this:

Additional info I tried to run it with gdb like this:

gdb multipass.gui
> run

it gave me more info:

Thread 1 "multipass.gui" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00005555557c49af in QHotkeyPrivateX11::nativeKeycode(Qt::Key, bool&) ()

Which gave me an idea that I have to run it in X mode. So I tried this:

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb multipass.gui

Only then it started to work.

[townsend2010]

Hi @nikelborm!

Thank you for the bug report! This is another pitfall of not running Multipass within a snap environment. The snap will set this up for you and we really don't support running Multipass outside of a snap other than for development purposes. Also, the QHotKey third party library and the use of Qt for the system tray menu will be going away in the next release of Multipass where will will be releasing a full GUI along with the system tray menu written in Flutter.

I'm going to close this since we will not be fixing this for the reasons I stated above.