White Screen

[Curve]

Discussed in https://github.com/Soundux/Soundux/discussions/434

^{Originally posted by Janhu-Silvio November 10, 2021}
Hallo
I'using Soundux version 0.2.7 on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.
From terminal I've these messages:

janhu@janhu-pc:~$ **soundux**
[05:56:59] [success] Config read
[05:56:59] [success] LibWnck found - Icon support is enabled
[05:56:59] [message] PulseAudio is ready!
[05:56:59] [warning] Switch on connect found: 5
[05:57:00] [message] Using DISPLAY :0
**Received invalid message: 'NetworkProcess_ContinueWillSendRequest'**

And I see only a white screen :-(

what can i do?
Thank you all

[Curve]

This seems to be an issue with specific webkit2gtk versions, please try to use the flatpak instead.

I'm leaving this issue open so that we can find out what exactly causes this.

[Curve]

This will likely not be a problem in future versions as we are considering to switch to QtWebEngine instead of Webkit2Gtk, which seems to more stable.

[North-West-Wind]

switch to QtWebEngine instead of Webkit2Gtk

Oh no!
Sincerely, a Gentoo user

That aside, I am also greeted with a white screen after compiling. Running with kernel 5.17.1-r1, GNOME 42, X11 and testing packages.

[Curve]

switch to QtWebEngine instead of Webkit2Gtk

Oh no!
Sincerely, a Gentoo user

That aside, I am also greeted with a white screen after compiling. Running with kernel 5.17.1-r1, GNOME 42, X11 and testing packages.

Try deleting ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache or alternatively the whole mime folder

[davidawesome02]

I was able to fix my problem (came when I swapped graphics cards) by running update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime which fixed it, I found it while looking into curve's answer.

[Curve]

I'll close this issue as it is more or less resolved and will not occur again with the QWebEngine as far as I'm aware.
However I'll pin this ^^

[sheeepdev]

Hello all, I tried all solutions in here but none of them work :(

[Curve]

Hello all, I tried all solutions in here but none of them work :(

What distro are you on and what installation method did you use?

[sheeepdev]

Hello all, I tried all solutions in here but none of them work :(

What distro are you on and what installation method did you use?

I am running Arch Linux and using the soundux aur package

[Curve]

Hello all, I tried all solutions in here but none of them work :(

What distro are you on and what installation method did you use?

I am running Arch Linux and using the soundux aur package

Me too, and deleting the mime cache did not help? That's strange, another thing you could do is to try the flatpak (just to see if that works)

[sheeepdev]

Hello all, I tried all solutions in here but none of them work :(

What distro are you on and what installation method did you use?

I am running Arch Linux and using the soundux aur package

Me too, and deleting the mime cache did not help? That's strange, another thing you could do is to try the flatpak (just to see if that works)

I tried like 3 times, but deleting mime cache didn't work. I'll try one more time, then I'm gonna go install flatpak.

[sheeepdev]

Update: Clearing mime cache didn't help, flatpak works and UI launches.

[Dieal]

Update: Clearing mime cache didn't help, flatpak works and UI launches.

I tried to install Soundux from AUR and Flatpak. With AUR I get an error trying to install with yay, with Flatpak I get a white screen instead :/

[sheeepdev]

Update: Just saw the comment from @Dieal and tried reinstalling from AUR, did not launch as expected (still white screen) at first but then I followed the notice:

==> WARNING: Currently there's a bug with the webkit2gtk version in Arch. If the window stays white try deleting ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache, which did not work before

This time deleting the mime cache worked and I can see the UI. I don't know why it didnt work before.

As for @Dieal's issue I did not get any errors while reinstalling...

[Dieal]

I managed to fix it. When installing with yay I've always selected the first package, but you have to compile the soundux-git package.

[sheeepdev]

I managed to fix it. When installing with yay I've always selected the first package, but you have to compile the soundux-git package.

I used the normal soundux package and it worked as normal 🤷

[aidalgol]

Setting the environment variable WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 resolves the blank window for me, running from a local build of master on NixOS. (Thanks to this comment on a Lutris issue.)