Avalonia - Issue tracker

[MutantAura]

Bug Report

The Avalonia GUI currently has a few bugs and issues ranging from minor to major. This issue serves as a tracker and easily extendable way to follow progress on specific limitations. The tracker will be broken into "Major", "Moderate" and "Minor" which range from bugs that need to be resolved before Avalonia can become default all the way to more 'nice-to-have' features.

Leave a comment if there is anything reproducible that has been missed. This is also not an issue to add feature requests to. Comments asking for new GUI features will be marked as off-topic.

Issue tracker

Major

• Updater does not function. Creates a blank dialog box with no content. (Fixed in Avalonia - Fixes updater #3670)
• Using Vulkan on Windows (have checked Linux on Nvidia and Intel, does not occur there) the program is extremely unresponsive and takes disproportionate time to load GUI elements compared to OpenGL (Menus, tooltips, changing between windows etc.). Appears to have started after the merge of Avalonia - Couple fixes and improvements to vulkan #3483. (Fixed by Avalonia - Use embedded window for avalonia #3674)
• Overlays cause serious issues especially when entering fullscreen. The Nvidia overlay will glitch for multiple seconds and shadowplay becomes nearly unusable. RTSS and similar monitoring software will also monitor the UI itself rather than the game window, making them also functionless. (Fixed in Avalonia - Use embedded window for avalonia #3674)
• Some Linux distros show a transparent render window using Vulkan. This also extends to any dialog boxes.
• ContentDialog aren't visible in fullscreen on macOs ([Bug] Ryujinx's popup window doesn't show in full screen mode on macOS #4939)

Moderate

• Type boxes do not lose focus when clicking emptyspace and will remain active until an element that has a focus property is selected. Whitespace does not appear to have any focus properties. (Fixed in Ava GUI: Several UI Fixes #3991)
  
  
• "Hide Cursor on Idle" setting does not work when hovering the render window on Windows 10/11. (Pending: Ava UI: Fixes "Hide Cursor on Idle" for Windows #4266)
• Entering a letter into an AutoCompleteTextBox will cause it to populate the entire screen vertically. (Fixed in Avalonia - Misc changes to UX #3643)
• Fullscreening using Vulkan can cause the window to crash and become unresponsive. (Fixed in: Avalonia - Couple fixes and improvements to vulkan #3483)
• Launching a game via terminal will crash when using Vulkan. (Fixed in Avalonia - Use embedded window for avalonia #3674)
• Frame-pacing can be problematic compared to GTK. This is incredibly hard to verify though given all the usual tools (as listed above) don't reliably work as they capture the UI, not the game directly. (Fixed in Avalonia - Use embedded window for avalonia #3674)
• Fullscreening prevents the creation of ControllerApplet dialogs. This issue also continues after exiting fullscreen. (Possible fix: Avalonia - Force activate parent window before dialog is shown #4663)
• NCA extraction dialogs do not close once task is completed (Fixed by: Ava: Fix nca extraction window never closing & minor cleanup #4569)
• Software keyboard text does not fill with example text provided by title (Fixed by Avalonia - Move swkbd message null check into constructor #4671).
• Hide UI use F4 hotkey, but if you enable it, there is no way to get the UI back by pressing F4.

Minor

• Using arrowkeys in an AutoCompleteTextBox will select the first entry and remove all other options. Fixed by Avalonia - Remove on property changed call in Time Zone validation #3752
• Locales are far from complete. Will likely need to switch to a translation service to fully mitigate this issue. (CrowdIn integration)
• Toggling fullscreen on Windows causes the window size to slowly increase in vertically. (Image after around 8 toggles)
  
• Clicking text on menuitems should toggle the checkbox in the menuitem. (Framework limitation, workaround in Avalonia - Make menuitems toggleable on textclick #3469)
• Volume status bar is misaligned (Partially resolved in Avalonia - Misc changes to UX #3643)
• Text font and navbar/button icons could scale with the "icon size" slider as some users may appreciate larger GUI fonts.
• Window does not remember it's size position or state on relaunch (Fixed by: Allow window to remember its size, position and state (GTK + Avalonia) #4657)

Currently unfixable by Ryujinx/Framework bug

• Scaling on non-standard DPI may not function correctly. A better way to query DPI is coming in Avalonia 11.0
• XDG Portal support is missing for Flatpack build (Apparently fixed by Avalonia 11.0)
• Menu doesn't show on Steam Deck when launched via Steam (This also happens to the official devtools of Avalonia) (Fixed by: Use popupParent as X11 parent window AvaloniaUI/Avalonia#14366)

Environment?

• Ryujinx version: Avalonia - Various

Additional context?

List originally from discord: https://discord.com/channels/410208534861447168/814263228926132274/996196878590943243 but the message length was getting to its limit.

[LunaDook]

Noticing in the Polish translation at least, the "Start Game in Fullscreen Mode" button has some weird rendering issues. On one computer with a 1440p monitor at 125% resolution scaling, the last word in the line disappears entirely:

On a system with a 4K display at 200% scaling, the line has the last word, but the last letter is cut off (it's supposed to be an m):

Both systems are running the same build of Ryujinx.

EDIT: I thought I'd check both systems again with a different build but still running the same between both systems and now they're both not displaying the last word on that toggle.

[IsaacMarovitz]

I would say yes, until it's default we may find more things as we go. Plus I personally want the typebox issue looked at 🙃

Fixed in #3991

[Pixxel123]

On Steam Deck, it seems that Avalonia does not show dropdown menus on click or touch input in the top settings bar. I have opened #4073 to track this in greater detail.

[OldManKain]

If a controller becomes disconnected during emulation the emulator freezes with the console window spamming that there is no controller detected, when you reconnect the controller the console stops spamming but the emulator stays frozen and menu bars are unresponsive. You can still turn v-sync on and off with hotkey, but no other hotkey works.

Controllers Tested
Official Switch Pro
Official Joy-Con
Xbox Series
Xbox 360
Chrome Series Xbox 360
GuliiKit KingKong 2 Pro
GulliKit KingKong 2
DualSense
DS4

Update to this. If a controller is disconnected while Ryujinx isn't the main focus window the controller not connected Pop up will not pop up and just freezes the emulator.

Fixed with #4663

[joshuacode751]

Saving settings while in game. The controller stop's working. The controller works again when saving the settings on the Input section.

[notjl]

Here's the log file https://hastebin.com/share/vavukodesu.yaml

[SamusAranX]

Found two macOS-specific issues:

• Command+Q doesn't immediately quit the program. For some reason it takes several presses for Ryujinx to actually quit
• Command+Comma doesn't open the Settings window.

wrt that last one: This is less of a bug and more of a missing feature. That key combination is the macOS-standard way of quickly getting to an app's settings.
I'm also not 100% sure if Command+Comma is used in every locale or just the German one. That might require verification by Mac users with other system locales.

[vesper8]

Avalonia 11 just released! https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/releases/tag/11.0.0

[AzureStrikerRai]

I ran into 3 issues while using the Avalonia build.

1. Controller profiles made in GTK do not load. You have to redo them in Avalonia.
2. Loading controller profiles also load the input device you had when saving the profile so it can cause problems when using multiple controllers that use the same controller profile.
3. Using the arrow keys when trying to change deadzones/thresholds either gives the minimum or the maximum. You can't go up by .1 nor .10 by holding ctrl and using the arrow keys like in GTK.

[IsaacMarovitz]

Following the update to Avalonia 11 yesterday, the plan to sunset GTK is imminent. We are waiting on the async PRs, which should significantly improve the speediness of many windows, and all the necessary migration infrastructure to get people over from GTK seamlessly.

[Narugakuruga]

Updater now will crash in 1.1.980 if the download process lasts for more than 30s

[GabCoolDude]

The scrollbar in the about menu looks weird.

Sometimes it goes over names.

And if you scroll down it clips through the bottom.

[Narugakuruga]

Updater now will crash in 1.1.980 if the download process lasts for more than 30s

This issue was gone in latest version. (Or maybe it can't be reproduced again)

[rings2006]

i'm aware there is an issue about it already, but avilonia 11 adds accessibility apis for assistive tech such as screen readers, implimenting that would be nice, and can be seen as an issue to those who need it

[noxifoxi]

The issue with the broken application icon under Linux Is fixed (for me).

[TSRBerry]

Yep, this was fixed with the update to Avalonia 11 🎉

[mubinulhaque]

Menu doesn't show on Steam Deck when launched via Steam (This also happens to the official devtools of Avalonia)

Is this still an issue on Avalonia 11.0? Or has it not been tested yet?

[MetrosexualGarbodor]

#5741 @mubinulhaque

[Littl3Guy]

Controls return to default settings when switching between player profiles:

2023-10-23.00-32-08.mp4

[willianholtz]

In Linux, when a message appears (error, warning, etc.), the window often behaves very strangely. Sometimes small, and sometimes full screen!

[nixxou]

Nothing much, but when you press Alt There is not shortcut to go to the option menu
There is one for file (F), One for Action (A), but nothing for Options
That's annoying when you want to automate stuff where there is no hotkey available and i prefer to rely on keyboard than clicking.

Also, it seems to have stuff related to shortcuts that are non working, like if you do Alt + F, it show the File Menu. There is an underline below the E on Exit, but alt E, dont execute close.

On the same subject, it would be nice if tab allow you to go beetween top bar menu items.

[nixxou]

On Windows, when i want to use the Cheat windows on a game, the emulator crash and i have this error :
00:00:04.086 |E| Application : Unhandled exception caught: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Ryujinx.Ava.UI.Views.Main.MainMenuBarView.OpenCheatManagerForCurrentApp(Object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) in D:\a\Ryujinx\Ryujinx\src\Ryujinx.Ava\UI\Views\Main\MainMenuBarView.axaml.cs:line 171

[willianholtz]

They could add a button for "default" in the options.

[urbanracer34]

Hello,

I don't mean to be a bother, but when will Avalonia be fully merged into the main codebase? We've been sitting on 22/25 tasks completed for a long time now.

Thanks!

[MetrosexualGarbodor]

@urbanracer34 Avalonia was fully merged on July 2022, it's just not the default GUI on Windows and Linux yet.
Anyways, nothing is stopping you from using it as your main build currently, unless you're on a Steam Deck.

[urbanracer34]

@urbanracer34 Avalonia was fully merged on July 2022, it's just not the default GUI on Windows and Linux yet. Anyways, nothing is stopping you from using it as your main build currently, unless you're on a Steam Deck.

Hello @MetrosexualGarbodor !

Thanks for taking the time to respond, and thanks for the info.

I want to use it on a Steam Deck. That is the issue I have. Where do I go from here?

[urbanracer34]

Can I please get some help regarding getting this build running on my Steam Deck?

[DocMAX]

can i disable this UI and have the old one? gamescope doesn't show the menus with new UI.

[fvig2001]

RAM usage is pretty high.
Here's mine on load of application.

In comparison, it's only 200MB on non-Ava

This is just after both have loaded all my games and GUI is responsive.

[marysaka]

Gamescope related issues are fixed with AvaloniaUI/Avalonia#14366, waiting on Avalonia side.