I down graded to nvidia-driver 390 which solved the problem , without any adverse effects as far as I can see.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 at 05:24, Larry Nagel <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, John, that did the trick!!! > > Larry > --- > *Larry Nagel* > *251 Stanford Avenue* > *Kensington, CA 94708* > > *(510) 558-0842* > *Cell: (510) 502-6244* > *[email protected]* > > > On 2023-12-14 08:58, john wrote: > > It won't be fixed in the next release because it's not something that > > GnuCash can fix. As you say, the work around is to stop WebKit using > > the GPU with WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment. > > > > There's a typo in your flatpak command line that might trip up > > somebody not paying close enough attention. The correct command is > > WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash > > with a space between flatpak and run. > > For users whose distros have screwed up the webkitgtk package and > > aren't using Flatpak, say > > WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 gnucash > > instead or set WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment > > some other way. > > > > Note that this is about webkitgtk not GnuCash so it's completely > > independent of GnuCash version. It has been reported for GnuCash > > releases as early as 4.4. Also, while there is a known issue with > > Nvidia drivers (reportedly resolved by Nvidia Linux driver > > 535.113.01), there are a couple of other ways that packagers can screw > > up the webkitgtk dependencies and break GPU acceleration regardless of > > GPU brand. > > > > All of which said, Arch Linux managed to screw up their webkitgtk > > package so thoroughly that disabling GPU acceleration didn't help. > > There's a systemd journal crash on > > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798549 that you can use to > > recognize the problem. I think Arch have fixed it but it might still > > manifest in other distros. > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > > >> On Dec 14, 2023, at 05:16, Charlie Morrison <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> If you have an Nvidia GPU, there is an issue rendering reports in > >> Linux. There is a bug report discussing it and it may be fixed for > >> the next release but I'm not sure about that. The report information > >> is there but you can't see it. > >> > >> The workaround is to set an environmental variable that disables > >> compositing in Webkitgtk. You can check to see if this fixes it for > >> you by starting Gnucash in the terminal using the following command: > >> > >> WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpakrun org.gnucash.GnuCash > >> > >> If that allows you to see the reports, then setting the environmental > >> variable "WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1" will fix it. I have no > >> idea how to do that in Linux Mint however. > >> > >> > >> On 12/14/23 00:44, Larry Nagel wrote: > >>> One further addendum: I can print the report as a PDF, I just > >>> cannot see the report on my terminal. > >>> > >>> Very weird!!! > >>> > >>> Larry > >>> --- > >>> *Larry Nagel* > >>> *251 Stanford Avenue* > >>> *Kensington, CA 94708* > >>> > >>> *(510) 558-0842* > >>> *Cell: (510) 502-6244* > >>> *[email protected]* > >>> > >>> > >>> On 2023-12-13 22:12, Larry Nagel wrote: > >>>> My apologies in advance because I think this question has been > >>>> asked and answered. I have been running gnucash on Linux Mint and > >>>> Windows forever, and I am a fairly low impact user. I only run > >>>> reports when it's time to see the tax man, so I don't know when > >>>> simple stored reports like Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet > >>>> stopped working. I presently have flathub 5.4.1 running on Linux > >>>> Mint 21.2. These same reports work fine on the Windows version of > >>>> gnucash [ Version 5.4 Build ID: 5.3-412-g53245caebf+(2023-09-23) > >>>> ]. I'm obviously not copying something to the correct location on > >>>> the flathub version. > >>>> > >>>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!! > >>>> > >>>> Larry > >>>> --- > >>>> *Larry Nagel* > >>>> *251 Stanford Avenue* > >>>> *Kensington, CA 94708* > >>>> > >>>> *(510) 558-0842* > >>>> *Cell: (510) 502-6244* > >>>> *[email protected]* > >>>> > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> gnucash-user mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >>> ----- > >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-user mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >> ----- > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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