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Leonida12

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Registered: 2022-10-13

Posts: 15

[SOLVED]gnome showing empty-invisible windows on some applications

Hi,
this is my first post on this forum.
I installed Arch linux some days ago for the first time and I configured it for my needs following the glorious wiki. All was working, and very well, way better than any other distro.
I encountered only two problems (till now xD) in the way of setting up my last os.
The following is the first problem.

I chose XORG as display-server and KDE as DE, but then i wanted to try GNOME for its nice look.
To remove possible conflicts i completely uninstalled KDE with

sudo pacman -Rsn plasma-meta kde-applications-meta

Then i run

sudo pacman -Syu

to update the packages and

sudo pacman -S gnome gnome-extra

to install gnome and extra functionalities.
I removed the SDDM symlink, i enabled the gdm.service and then rebooted.
After the login, GNOME seems working, but some applications as gnome-control-center are not shown.

As you can see gnome-control-center is not showing, instead the file-manager is correctly showing.
Other applications like calendar, rhythmbox ... are affected by this problem, instead file-manager, terminal, chromium ... just work.
(I showed the windows through activities because otherwise the gnome-control-

I don't know what the problem can be...
I checked that i was running on x11, i've also set WaylandEnable=false and DefaultSession=gnome-xorg.desktop in /etc/gdm/custom.conf.
Then i tried to start a gnome-shell session in another tty with

gnome-shell --wayland --replace

and the situation has reversed (gnome-control-center is correctly showing but terminal, file-manager ... not).

Other useful informations:
My system runs in a laptop with two graphic cards (Intel and Nvidia).
The NVIDIA one is in offload mode, and all the settings should be set correctly (gaming and harware acceleration work very well).

What could be the problem?

Thanks in advance for the help and sorry for my poor english.

PS: archey3 output shows "WM: None" but gnome-shell is correctly running.

Last edited by Leonida12 (2022-10-13 18:41:30)

Leonida12

Member

Registered: 2022-10-13

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED]gnome showing empty-invisible windows on some applications

I solved xD.
I added __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia command  to /etc/envorinment on the first try to make nvidia working...
I run steam games with prime-run so i don't know why i set that variable (also global) xD.

Thanks anyway.