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Cannot launch in wayland mode

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The problem

Cannot launch in native wayland mode using the usual flags. The app crashes after a SegFault when trying to do so.

Release version

2.9.12RC4

Operating system

EndeavourOS

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. Use a Wayland DE
  2. Open a command prompt
  3. run github-desktop --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --verbose

Log files

./GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.12-linux4.AppImage --verbose --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
[11818:0405/161655.624788:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(454)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is egl, ANGLE is 
[11818:0405/161655.639320:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[11772:0405/161655.685004:ERROR:cursor_loader.cc(116)] Failed to load a platform cursor of type kNull
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)

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Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created a year ago
  • Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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shiftkeycommented, Apr 15, 2022

I’ve published 2.9.14-linux2 which contains an Electron build with the update, so hopefully this improves the Wayland support on our end…

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red5h4d0wcommented, Apr 15, 2022

Thank you. I’ve just tested the appimage for 2.9.14-linux2 and this issue is fixed

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