Login page is blank for NVIDIA users about com.amazon.workspaces

[bbhtt]

You can do flatpak override --user --env=WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 com.amazon.Workspaces or flatpak override --user --env=WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 com.amazon.Workspaces or use Flatseal if you want a GUI.

You are hitting a webkit2gtk (>=2.42.0) bug either https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261874 that affects only NVIDIA users.

I'll pin the issue so people can find it.

Unfortunately until it is fixed by NVIDIA or webkitgtk, I can't do anything. Reverting to an older version isn't option because webkitgtk gets too many security fixes in a release and I can't keep it forever on 2.40.5

[bbhtt]

Are you using a NVIDIA GPU by any chance? Does flatpak run --env=WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 com.amazon.Workspaces work ? or flatpak run --env=WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 com.amazon.Workspaces?

[jtuz]

Thank you @bbhtt it helped me a lot!

[djcass44]

I am unfortunately using an NVIDIA GPU... but amazingly that did work! Is there a good way of making that env permanent?

[Clifra-Jones]

@bbhtt Thanks you, saved me big time!

[jplandrain]

I have the same issue. I'm able to launch the Workspaces client by enabling the discrete graphic card when launching it (i.e. not using the NVidia graphic card, but the integrated Intel one instead).

[Clifra-Jones]

I have the same issue. I'm able to launch the Workspaces client by enabling the discrete graphic card when launching it (i.e. not using the NVidia graphic card, but the integrated Intel one instead).

Just apply the fix @bbhtt describes. It works and you can turn off discrete graphics.

[Steve973]

I have been having this problem for months, and I have searched for a solution before, but I was unable to find even a mention of it. I thought that it might be something unique to my setup, but I didn't probe further. Somehow, this time I got lucky and found this github issue! Thank you @bbhtt for the environment variables that fixed it for me! I previously had to navigate the login form blindly. It was not super hard to do, but it always felt like a pain. Anyone that has this issue will be very happy to find this solution! Please, give @bbhtt a raise!

[Discusseded]

Used Flatseal to turn off GPU acceleration as @bbhtt suggested. Dude, thank you so much for that info.

I had been using a Win11 VM that I had to buy a license for on a home server to run Azure AVD, just so I could get to my work machine. Not the worst thing in the world but AVD has the unfortunate pricing model that charges even when it's not in use so I have to wait a long time for it to boot and I get emails if I leave it on at night.

I had no idea it was because of my Nvidia card, didn't even think to turn that feature off.

[eugeneRover]

Faced the same issue on debian linux (Linux host 6.1.0-22-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.94-1 (2024-06-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux)

@bbhtt thanks, you rock, the following did the trick for me:

bash -c 'WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 /usr/bin/workspacesclient'