Unable to run on Linux Mint 21.3 (flatpak)

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Unable to run on Linux Mint 21.3 (flatpak)

Closed this issue a year ago · 2 comments

connorjclark commented a year ago

nvidia RTX 3080 card, in case that matters.

This is fixed using the workaround suggested here - LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 flatpak run org.opensurge2d.OpenSurge

My issue specifically is I get this error:

Gtk-Message: 23:28:39.856: Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"

And no window opens.

This thread may be related to the root cause, I guess it's 100% Mint / Ubuntu's fault - and according to the thread it may possibly be resolved in the next LTS Mint 22.

Figured I'd share for other Mint users to find a resolution. Feel free to close.

alemart commented a year ago

Thanks!

Answer 1 · 2024-06-29T08:11:37.000Z

My true issue apparently was I needed to select the official driver for my NVIDIA GPU from Device Manager, instead of using the default open source driver bundled with Mint. After selecting that, then doing flatpak update (because flatpak will duplicate whatever drivers you have active) things work much better (and I don't pay a huge CPU penalty for software rendering).

I added a notice in my flatpak's entry script to alert the user of this... feel free to steal :)