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smhsketch

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Electron apps behave weirdly on Dell inspiron 5000 series [SOLVED]

I've got a Dell inspiron laptop with Arch and several different WMs on it. Everything else works fine, but when I try to open Code OSS, Discord, or any other electron app, it behaves weirdly, no matter what desktop I'm on.

The app will be completely blank until I resize it in some way. Once I resize it, the program displays normally, but does not take any keyboard or mouse input. I can move the window around like a fully responsive program, but none of the buttons work.

I haven't been able to replicate the issue on my desktop PC, so I believe the problem lies in the hardware. Does anyone have any suggestions? Electron is up to date as well as each individual app.

Last edited by smhsketch (2020-03-08 17:09:17)

V1del

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Re: Electron apps behave weirdly on Dell inspiron 5000 series [SOLVED]

Do you have xf86-video-intel installed? Remove it and any configuration relevant to it if so and retry.

Last edited by V1del (2020-03-08 11:54:58)

smhsketch

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Re: Electron apps behave weirdly on Dell inspiron 5000 series [SOLVED]

Thank you so much! I removed xf86-video-intel and libxvmc, one of its dependencies, and everything works great

smhsketch

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Re: Electron apps behave weirdly on Dell inspiron 5000 series [SOLVED]

Hmm... after uninstalling this, it seems to have made my media keys stop working completely... apparently it needs to be installed to use them? how can i make my programs work properly and have functional media keys?

V1del

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Re: Electron apps behave weirdly on Dell inspiron 5000 series [SOLVED]

No that's impossible. unless you happened to remove a config that also manipulated input devices. What environment are you starting?

smhsketch

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Re: Electron apps behave weirdly on Dell inspiron 5000 series [SOLVED]

I'm running i3, and I made a bunch of keybinding like XF86Calculator which only work if that package is installed

V1del

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Re: Electron apps behave weirdly on Dell inspiron 5000 series [SOLVED]

The only way this would remotely have any relevance is if you are talking brightness keys, but the only relevance that could have has to do with permissions not how the buttons identify. Double check in xev, I highly doubt that these buttons "just don't work" they may have different identifiers. Though I still think you see some other correlation here.

smhsketch

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Re: Electron apps behave weirdly on Dell inspiron 5000 series [SOLVED]

I tested out xev. The buttons still have the same identifiers.

I figured out that when the package was removed they can't be identified by XF86Calculator etc in the config, (this might be my own error, i might not be doing it right) but they can still be identified by their bind codes. I set up my config to use bindcodes instead of binsyms for those buttons, and they worked.