Electron apps are blank / empty on startup [SOLVABLE]

I’m experiencing the same issues.

I’ve had this problem running Ubuntu (Xubuntu minimum install) 22.04 on my 12th gen i7 Framework and my older Dell Precision 5540 running Ubuntu 20.04.

I see visual glitches - black squares, displaced visual artifacts, etc - in a variety of applications, including but not limited to:

  • Slack
  • Chromium
  • VS Code
  • Bitwarden
  • Balena Etcher

In all cases, I can start the application with the --disable-gpu flag and it runs without issue. However, this is a band-aid, not a fix. There is something going on with graphics acceleration in Electron or browser-based applications. Maybe this relates to Intel graphics support?

I have not yet tried reproducing the issue in other distributions.

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this issue, or if Framework devs encountered it while working on Linux support.

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