Only a white rectangle appears upon starting #70

SanskritFritz commented 2026年05月30日 19:44:59 +02:00

Hi, I'm missing something, installed Helixnotes from AUR, after starting it, only a white rectangle appears, which is closeable when I click on the upper right corner. I looked at the codeberg issues, but found nothing like that.
Starting from the terminal only outputs this:

~> helixnotes 
(helixnotes:46461): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:35:32.441: im-ibus.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(helixnotes:46461): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:35:32.441: Loading IM context type 'ibus' failed
Failed to create GBM buffer of size 1200x800: Invalid argument

Maybe a dependency is missing? I don't know what im-ibus should be.

Hi, I'm missing something, installed Helixnotes from AUR, after starting it, only a white rectangle appears, which is closeable when I click on the upper right corner. I looked at the codeberg issues, but found nothing like that. Starting from the terminal only outputs this: ``` ~> helixnotes (helixnotes:46461): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:35:32.441: im-ibus.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (helixnotes:46461): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:35:32.441: Loading IM context type 'ibus' failed Failed to create GBM buffer of size 1200x800: Invalid argument ``` Maybe a dependency is missing? I don't know what `im-ibus` should be.

ArkHost commented 2026年05月30日 19:48:18 +02:00

Hello,

Can you try to start it from the terminal with this parameter?
WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 helixnotes

Does it render this way?

Hello, Can you try to start it from the terminal with this parameter? `WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 helixnotes` Does it render this way?

SanskritFritz commented 2026年05月30日 20:24:41 +02:00

Yes, it does. If there is anything more to test, just say the word.

First time user, coming from Obsidian, this project looks very very promising! Thanks for it!

Yes, it does. If there is anything more to test, just say the word. First time user, coming from Obsidian, this project looks very very promising! Thanks for it!

ArkHost commented 2026年05月30日 21:17:56 +02:00

I'll ship a permanent fix in the next release, so that users won't have to set that env var by hand.

I'll ship a permanent fix in the next release, so that users won't have to set that env var by hand.

ArkHost commented 2026年06月19日 10:41:52 +02:00

v1.3.0 disabled the WebKitGTK DMABUF renderer by default, which caused this on some Linux setups. Can you retest on v1.3.1?

v1.3.0 disabled the WebKitGTK DMABUF renderer by default, which caused this on some Linux setups. Can you retest on v1.3.1?

SanskritFritz commented 2026年06月26日 20:18:48 +02:00

Yes, sir, I tested version 1.3.2 and it starts with all of its glory. Thank you.

Yes, sir, I tested version 1.3.2 and it starts with all of its glory. Thank you.