GyulyVGC/sniffnet

Garbled app view when running without `sudo`

bassamanator opened this issue · 3 comments

bassamanator commented

Is there an existing issue for this?

  • I have searched the existing issues.

What's the problem?

When running from the application menu or command line via sniffnet, this is what the app looks like:

Image

How did you install the app?

downloaded one of the provided packages

Operating System

Linux

Additional context

  • I installed via sudo pacman -S sniffnet.
  • The app runs fine when I run via sudo sniffnet.

I did search to see if this was an existing issue, sorry if I missed it.

Operating System: EndeavourOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.2-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 30.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS
GyulyVGC commented

Can you check the value of your ICED_BACKEND environment variable?

If it's not set, try setting it to tiny-skia, and try again.

bassamanator commented

ICED_BACKEND was not set.

I did an export ICED_BACKEND=tiny-skia and then ran sniffnet, and the app is no longer garbled.

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GyulyVGC commented

Awesome!

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