whatRust v0.6.13

whatRust v0.6.13

Linux: smooth scrolling on laptops with two graphics cards.

On laptops where Intel or AMD graphics drive the screen and an NVIDIA card is there for heavier work (common with NVIDIA's "Optimus"), whatRust turned off WebKit's fast rendering path just because the NVIDIA driver was installed. Scrolling chats and typing felt sluggish as a result. That workaround is only needed when NVIDIA drives the display, so whatRust now applies it only then. On an Intel UHD + Quadro P520 laptop scrolling went from sluggish to smooth (#78).

If you had set WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER yourself, for example with flatpak override, whatRust still respects it.

Also since 0.6.12: the Flatpak installer now fixes a lost Flatpak document-portal mount, which stopped every Flatpak app from opening with bwrap: Can't find source path …/doc/by-app/…. The README explains the macOS "whatRust is damaged" message on a browser-downloaded .dmg, and the one command that clears it.

If you are on 0.6.11 or 0.6.12, whatRust installs this update on its own (AppImage, macOS, Windows) or offers it in Settings → Updates (.deb, Flatpak).

Support whatRust

whatRust is free and open source, built in my spare time. If it saves you time every day, please consider sponsoring it. Sponsorship pays for the hours that go into fixes and releases like this one, and every sponsor helps toward the monthly goal.

Install or update

# Linux (Flatpak)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karem505/whatRust/master/install-flatpak.sh | sh
# Linux (AppImage) and macOS
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karem505/whatRust/master/install.sh | sh

On Windows, run the x64-setup.exe or .msi below. 0.6.10 and older don't have the updater, so install this version by hand once.

macOS .dmg: "whatRust is damaged and can't be opened"? The app isn't damaged. It is not signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks it after a browser download. Drag it into Applications, run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/whatRust.app once in Terminal, and open it again. The install.sh line above does this for you.

Full changelog: v0.6.12...v0.6.13