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cassidyjames / butler

Home Assistant companion app for Linux
https://cassidyjames.com
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Advice for legacy Nvidia users if you encounter a blank screen after installing. #32

Open scottyphillips opened 7 months ago

scottyphillips commented 7 months ago

Good morning,

I just installed from Flathub and was greeted with a blank screen. Issue is not with the app, but combination of Webkit and Nvidia drivers. For users with proprietary Nvidia drivers - if you encounter a blank screen you need to fix it with this environment variable, which can be installed using Flatseal.

WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1

https://www.reddit.com/r/flatpak/comments/175rd6h/flatpak_nvidia_driver_breaks_flatpak_apps/

Thanks for this app it looks very useful.

cassidyjames commented 6 months ago

Thanks for sharing! If I want to do something about this in-app, I need to either detect the combination of things that could cause it (e.g. detect if running on NVIDIA and if that environment variable is not present) and throw an alert, or could I even just… disable that renderer if on NVIDIA in the first place? 🤔