[GNC-dev] Gnucash Reports and GL

[John Ralls]

OK. I suspected as much but I'd never heard of Nvidia Xrun before and wanted to make sure. GnuCash uses a component from WebKitGtk to display reports so I have to guess that Debian has packaged that in a way that works only with openGL. To test that you can install the Gnome Browser and see if it exhibits the same behavior.

You can try setting the environment variable WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 and see if that prevents it using OpenGL. I think it's supposed to. If it doesn't the only option is to build your own WebKitGtk with -DUSE_OPENGL_OR_ES=OFF added to the options. You can find the build rules for Debian Unstable at https://salsa.debian.org/webkit-team/webkit/-/blob/wk2/unstable/debian/rules. Note that it has Gtk4 enabled and Gtk4 also depends heavily on OpenGL so you'll probably want to turn that off too.

Good Luck!

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 6, 2023, at 12:20 PM, Almond G. <goola96 at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Sorry! Of course,  I should have mentioned  that: GNU/Linux Debian 11.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
>  AG
> 
> El    dijous   06/04/2023    a    les    09:41:10   -0700,    john <jralls at ceridwen.us> ha escrit:
> 
>> What operating system?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>>> On  Apr 6,  2023, at  1:15 AM,  Almond G.  <goola96 at riseup.net> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I run  gnucash in a laptop  with  an Optimus nvidia  card along with an
>>> integrated Intel graphics  card.  The only  way I  found to get things
>>> working properly,  ie.  using the less  battery-consuming Intel card
>>> most  of the  time,  has   been resorting  to  nvidia-xrun only when
>>> needed.  To my  surprise,  gnucash  reports only  show  up when I'm
>>> running  with  the  nvidia  card,   the rest  of  the  features work
>>> seamlessly. When running  on the Intel card the  reports appear just
>>> as a white screen.
>>> I couldn't find   in the docs any way to   configure reports so they  don't  need  gl-drivers.  Is  that  possible?  Any  clues welcome!
>>> Thank you for your reading.
>>> Cheers,
>>> -- almond
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