Louise is running into a known problem with NVidia video cards under Linux, which that command line argument addresses. If you don't have the particular video card, you won't get the problem. Past users have created a shortcut that calls GnuCash with that parameter. I do not know whether there have been fixes in Linux to address the problem.
This was discussed on this list a couple of years back, I believe. See, for example: <https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-October/109024.html> David T. On August 13, 2026 9:09:29 AM GMT+05:30, Ken Pyzik <[email protected]> wrote: >Louise - I am on Linux Mint 22.3 and had no issue creating a transaction >report and linking to the options. I clicked on reports - options - and get >the screen below. I should note that I install GnuCash via flatpak. > >Ken > >[cid:a56958a2-e888-493e-bb48-7849e7f50f0e] > > >________________________________ >From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> on >behalf of Louise <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 3:52 PM >To: GnuCash Mailing List <[email protected]> >Subject: [GNC] Report creation not functioning > >I am running gnucash for personal home accounts. > >I am using Linux Mint 22.3 > >Today I tried to create a transaction report, and the link to go to >options did nothing. The mouse pointer did not even change shape. > >I looked this up on the internet and found that I needed to run gnucash >from the terminal as follows for the report creation to work: > >WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 gnucash > >This did work but is obviously not the best scenario going forward. > >Is there anything within gnucash to fix this? Is this a Linux thing that >needs to changed. Do I have to convert to flatpak? > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Louise >_______________________________________________ >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.
