[GNC] Reports No Longer Work

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 31, 2022, at 1:11 PM, Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> No reports work. None of my saved reports display info. Nothing from the menu displays info. Even reports I never run display nothing. 
> 
> Every report, saved or otherwise, displays a blank report screen. No errors or warning. 
> 
> System 76: Pop!_OS 21.10Gnome Version: 40.4.0
> GnuCash Version: 4.9Build ID: Flathub 4.9-2Finance::Quote: 1.49
> Custom report file appears correct: /home/xxxxxx/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash/saved-reports-2.8
> All was working last week. There were some system updates this week, a Gnome update as well, but I cannot say what was specifically updated. Otherwise, the system is current with updates as of today.
> 
> It's tax time here in the states. How do I fix this ASAP?

Was one of the updates for webkit2gtk-4.0 to version 2.26.0? They changed a default that breaks the way GnuCash renders reports. The work-around is to set WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment before running GnuCash.

Regards,
John Ralls