[GNC] Linux Mint version of Gnucash 5.4 Stopped Generating Reports

[Larry Nagel]

Thanks, John, that did the trick!!!

Larry
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On 2023-12-14 08:58, john wrote:
> It won't be fixed in the next release because it's not something that 
> GnuCash can fix. As you say, the work around is to stop WebKit using 
> the GPU with WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment.
>
> There's a typo in your flatpak command line that might trip up 
> somebody not paying close enough attention. The correct command is
>     WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
> with a space between flatpak and run.
> For users whose distros have screwed up the webkitgtk package and 
> aren't using Flatpak, say
>     WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 gnucash
> instead or set WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment 
> some other way.
>
> Note that this is about webkitgtk not GnuCash so it's completely 
> independent of GnuCash version. It has been reported for GnuCash 
> releases as early as 4.4. Also, while there is a known issue with 
> Nvidia drivers (reportedly resolved by Nvidia Linux driver 
> 535.113.01), there are a couple of other ways that packagers can screw 
> up the webkitgtk dependencies and break GPU acceleration regardless of 
> GPU brand.
>
> All of which said, Arch Linux managed to screw up their webkitgtk 
> package so thoroughly that disabling GPU acceleration didn't help. 
> There's a systemd journal crash on 
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798549 that you can use to 
> recognize the problem. I think Arch have fixed it but it might still 
> manifest in other distros.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>> On Dec 14, 2023, at 05:16, Charlie Morrison <sail43 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>> If you have an Nvidia GPU, there is an issue rendering reports in 
>> Linux.  There is a bug report discussing it and it may be fixed for 
>> the next release but I'm not sure about that.  The report information 
>> is there but you can't see it.
>>
>> The workaround is to set an environmental variable that disables 
>> compositing in Webkitgtk. You can check to see if this fixes it for 
>> you by starting Gnucash in the terminal using the following command:
>>
>> WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpakrun org.gnucash.GnuCash
>>
>> If that allows you to see the reports, then setting the environmental 
>> variable "WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1" will fix it.  I have no 
>> idea how to do that in Linux Mint however.
>>
>>
>> On 12/14/23 00:44, Larry Nagel wrote:
>>> One further addendum:  I can print the report as a PDF, I just 
>>> cannot see the report on my terminal.
>>>
>>> Very weird!!!
>>>
>>> Larry
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>>>
>>> On 2023-12-13 22:12, Larry Nagel wrote:
>>>> My apologies in advance because I think this question has been 
>>>> asked and answered.  I have been running gnucash on Linux Mint and 
>>>> Windows forever, and I am a fairly low impact user.  I only run 
>>>> reports when it's time to see the tax man, so I don't know when 
>>>> simple stored reports like Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet 
>>>> stopped working.  I presently have flathub 5.4.1 running on Linux 
>>>> Mint 21.2.  These same reports work fine on the Windows version of 
>>>> gnucash  [ Version 5.4 Build ID: 5.3-412-g53245caebf+(2023-09-23)  
>>>> ].  I'm obviously not copying something to the correct location on 
>>>> the flathub version.
>>>>
>>>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
>>>>
>>>> Larry
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>>>>
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>>>> *laurencenagel42 at gmail.com*
>>>>
>>>>
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