[GNC] Continued blank reports from within gnucash, printed version looks fine

[Charlie Morrison]

Quoting a previous message from John Ralls may be of value to resolve 
this issue:

On 12/14/23 10:58, 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 5/17/24 6:45 AM, Pierre Marcoux wrote:
> I experienced the same blank report running Linux Mint 21.3 after an update
> introduced after April 26.   I restored my system using Timeshift with a
> snapshot of April 26 and the reports are no longer blank.  Will wait for a
> fix before updating again. I
> I have GNUCASH version 5.6 Build ID Flathub 5.6-1 under Linux Mint 21.3.
> Hopefully this will help the great developers behind GNUCASH in
> identifying the root cause.
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 7:22 AM Daffy Duck <suffsuccotash at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded to Fedora 40, cinnamon, and continue to have blank
>> reports and invoices from within gnucash, but when printed to PDF, they
>> look fine.
>>
>> I've tried some other themes in Cinnamon, but it appears the same
>> thing.
>>
>> I've attached a sample of what I mean:
>>
>>
>> How do I fix this?  The data is there, because when I print to PDF, the
>> file looks fine.
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