So here I am again.
With this post I want to create some Arch troubleshooting guideline, I start the conversation with the problem I found and I was able to fix.
In one of last topics I said I found some updates in Arch that broke a sofware compatibility.
Two days ago I tried switch my workflow to an Arch Linux virtual machine and I found the same problem on the software, after activating the 3d graphic card acceleration.
So I was wondering if it’s a bug or what, since after almost 10 months ago it’s not fixed yet.
The problem I had was using Kreya (as api client) and IPTVnator (as multimedia broadcaster), both this software are using libwebgtk and on both of the softwares I had a blank window without any controls.
I did not saw this problem with Debian or Linux Lite because they are using an old library version.
I went deeply and looking at system logs there was some dumps in gtk libraries and javascript core frameworks. I understood that last updates (since gtk version 4.3) they add a feature for improve hardware acceleration. It seems this improvment have some issues with Nvidia cards, I own an RTX 3070ti, I fixed my problem by disabling this feature.
As I googled I found this topic [[bug] Tauri 2.0.0-rc shows blank window after upgrading to webkit2gtk-4.1 2.44.3-2 · Issue #10626 · tauri-apps/tauri · GitHub] and all I did was create a system wide variable: WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER and set its value to 1. After creating this variable bothe the softwares starts working again.
I lost my last 2 days tring fixing this problem, it might be usefoul to some others users.
ricky
