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kjozsa

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Registered: 2008-06-05

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[SOLVED] Viber no UI, just white screen after Arch reinstall

I reinstalled my Arch on a new laptop this weekend. Everything works, but starting Viber it leads me through scanning the QR code to sync the new app, and after it's done, it shows a blank white screen. No UI, no buttons/panels, nothing, just white under the window title.

Running Gnome on xorg, experience no other apps doing this.

The complete console log is

$ viber
qt.qml.typeregistration: Invalid QML element name "ViberAdsItem"; value type names should begin with a lowercase letter
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "stateChanged"
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "connectivityChanged"
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "deviceTypeChanged"
qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" to "meteredChanged"
qrc:/Resources/QML/Main.qml:368:17: Type MainHeader unavailable
qrc:/Resources/QML/MainHeader.qml:91:17: Type DebugMenu unavailable
qrc:/Resources/QML/Debug/DebugMenu.qml:99:5: Type GrowthBookMenu unavailable
qrc:/Resources/QML/Debug/GrowthBookMenu.qml:16:9: Type GrowthBookFeaturesPopup unavailable
qrc:/Resources/QML/Debug/GrowthBookFeaturesPopup.qml:90:29: Type GrowthBookFeatureMenuItem unavailable
qrc:/Resources/QML/Debug/GrowthBookFeatureMenuItem.qml:18:5: Cannot assign to non-existent property "menuItemTextFormat"

and I see no relevant logs in journalctl either. I tried to `strace` the app for obvious errors, but see no suspicious part either..

Any hints where to look?

Last edited by kjozsa (2024-12-02 11:05:39)

kermit63

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Registered: 2018-07-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Viber no UI, just white screen after Arch reinstall

Since you are using gnome and the error messages seem qt-related, maybe something to do with Uniform look for Qt and GTK?

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kjozsa

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Registered: 2008-06-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Viber no UI, just white screen after Arch reinstall

I have a couple of installed qt libs, as I hoped it solves the problem, but I still get the full white screen. Those packages are:

~ $ pacman -Q | rg qt6
13:adwaita-qt6-git 1.4.1.r29.g0a77436-1
775:qt6-5compat 6.8.0-1
776:qt6-base 6.8.0-1
777:qt6-declarative 6.8.0-6
778:qt6-imageformats 6.8.0-1
779:qt6-shadertools 6.8.0-1
780:qt6-svg 6.8.0-1
781:qt6-translations 6.8.0-1

Note also that other qt apps like Zoom work just fine..

kjozsa

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Registered: 2008-06-05

Posts: 154

Re: [SOLVED] Viber no UI, just white screen after Arch reinstall

Solved now, I installed `breeze` and removed the `QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE` env var - now it works!

kermit63

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Re: [SOLVED] Viber no UI, just white screen after Arch reinstall

Great. You may want to take a look at qt6ct. It allows you to customize the look of qt6 applications.

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Re: [SOLVED] Viber no UI, just white screen after Arch reinstall

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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