[GNC] reports not rendering

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

Further: as I understand, there had been an issue with rendering reports under Linux for some Nvidia video cards. Because it's a Linux thing, GnuCash doesn't have a direct fix, hence the workaround. 

⁣David T. ​

On Sep 27, 2024, 3:18 PM, at 3:18 PM, Mark at Lorimark <mark at lorimarksolutions.com> wrote:
>This might have something to do with rendering.  I have this as my 
>command line;
>
>~/bin/gnucash.sh
>WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
>
>~mark petryk
>~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com
>
>On 9/25/24 17:59, Mark Sattolo wrote:
>> A few days ago I upgraded from Linux Mint 20.3 Una (based on Ubuntu
>focal)
>> to 21 Vanessa (based on Ubuntu jammy). So I had to rebuild my
>Gnucash, and
>> used the 5.8 release code. The guile-3.0-dev lib was missing from my
>system
>> at first, but once I got that, the build seemed to have no problems
>at all.
>> All my accounts work fine. But then today I noticed that reports do
>not
>> render at all in the Gnucash window. Completely blank. The
>information is
>> there because I can print or export the reports and see everything in
>pdf
>> or html exactly as I expect, but nothing I have tried so far has made
>> any difference to the rendering in the gui.
>> 
>> Thought maybe it was a problem with my saved reports or custom
>stylesheets,
>> so I tried just printing a default 'Balance Sheet' from "Reports ->
>Assets
>> & Liabilities", but it is blank too.
>> 
>> In case this was a problem that has been fixed by now, I built a new
>> gnucash from the 'stable' release of a couple hours ago, with just
>the
>> default settings, but exact same problem.
>> Nothing from the build of either of the 5.8 executables seems to
>indicate
>> any serious problem...
>> 
>> I can see the discussion in the documentation about issues with
>report
>> rendering, but can there be a missing lib in the build now, but that
>> doesn't generate any warning or error message even though it is
>necessary
>> to render reports?
>> 
>> So, is this a known issue? Any solution? Any ideas?
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> *Mark*
>> 
>> 
>> *epistemik at gmail.com <epistemik at gmail.com>*
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