kitty fail to start under Wayland since 0.26.0

[cherrot]

Describe the bug
kitty fails to start - the window shows up for less than 1ms and crashes immediately.

$ kitty
[244 16:17:28.092829] [glfw error 65544]: process_desktop_settings: failed with error: [org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod] No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Settings” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
wl_surface@22: error 2: Buffer size (707x858) is not divisible by scale (2)
[244 16:17:28.094559] [glfw error 65544]: Wayland: fatal display error: Protocol error

The last working version is 0.25.2:

$ kitty
[244 16:33:14.518313] [glfw error 65544]: process_desktop_settings: failed with error: [org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod] No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Settings” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
(then the new window would be created)

Environment details

kitty 0.25.2 created by Kovid Goyal
Linux luozheng-zenbook 5.19.0-rc8-1-mainline-um5302ta #4 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue, 26 Jul 2022 08:50:43 +0000 x86_64
Arch Linux 5.19.0-rc8-1-mainline-um5302ta (/dev/tty)

Running under: Wayland
Frozen: False
Paths:
  kitty: /usr/bin/kitty
  base dir: /usr/lib/kitty
  extensions dir: /usr/lib/kitty/kitty
  system shell: /bin/zsh
Loaded config files:
  /home/cherrot/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

Config options different from defaults:
background_opacity 0.9
font_family        JetBrains Mono
macos_thicken_font 0.5
Added shortcuts:
	f9 → close_other_windows_in_tab
	ctrl+f2 → detach_tab
	ctrl+f4 → detach_tab ask
	ctrl+shift+y → launch --stdin-source=@screen_scrollback --type=overlay nvim -c "map q :qa!<CR>" -c "normal G" -
	ctrl+shift+f3 → detach_window new-tab
	ctrl+shift+f4 → detach_window ask
Changed shortcuts:
	ctrl+shift+f2 → detach_window
Colors:
	background         #2e3440   
	color0             #3b4252   
	color1             #bf616a   
	color10            #a3be8c   
	color11            #ebcb8b   
	color12            #81a1c1   
	color13            #b48ead   
	color14            #8fbcbb   
	color15            #eceff4   
	color2             #a3be8c   
	color3             #ebcb8b   
	color4             #81a1c1   
	color5             #b48ead   
	color6             #88c0d0   
	color7             #e5e9f0   
	color8             #4c566a   
	color9             #bf616a   
	cursor             #81a1c1   
	foreground         #d8dee9   

Important environment variables seen by the kitty process:
	PATH                                /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/usr/local/sbin:/home/cherrot/go/bin:/home/cherrot/bin:/home/cherrot/.local/bin:/home/cherrot/.krew/bin
	LANG                                en_US.UTF-8
	EDITOR                              nvim
	SHELL                               /bin/zsh
	GLFW_IM_MODULE                      ibus
	DISPLAY                             :0
	WAYLAND_DISPLAY                     wayland-1
	USER                                cherrot
	XCURSOR_SIZE                        24
	XDG_SEAT                            seat0
	XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP                 sway
	XDG_SESSION_TYPE                    wayland
	XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP                 sway
	XDG_SESSION_CLASS                   user
	XDG_VTNR                            1
	XDG_SESSION_ID                      3
	XDG_RUNTIME_DIR                     /run/user/1000

Additional context
OS: ArchLinux
I'm using a master build of swaywm (sway-im-git from AUR, to support input method)

sway --version
sway version 1.8-dev-6e023257 (Aug 12 2022, branch 'master')

[kovidgoyal]

dup of #4878

[cherrot]

Sorry for the duplication.
I'm still a bit confused: why version 0.5.2 is not affected? Do we have any workaround for this?

[kovidgoyal]

read the duplicate issue it has all workarounds listed. And why 0.25 was
not affected was just luck.