[GNC-dev] Gnucash Reports and GL

[Almond G.]

Thank you so much, John!

I installed epiphany and indeed  it didn't work properly with most 
pages, only simple static html was rendered, the rest resulting in 
error.

But best  of all: I have  set WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 as 
you suggested (in  the .xsessionrc file) and now  the reports from 
gnucash appear nice and fast!

Best regards,

AG


El   dijous  06/04/2023   a   les  15:44:15   -0700,  John   Ralls 
<jralls at ceridwen.us> ha escrit:

> 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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