[SPZ2-6266] [1.0.2-rc1] [Linux] Fullscreen not working on wayland

[fluid shale]

Environment: sway | Arch Linux

Unity crashes whenever the game enters fullscreen.
In the past I was able to force unity to start in borderless window mode by manually changing the game settings in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/tobspr Games/shapez 2/settings.json (or unity preferences $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/tobspr Games/shapez 2/prefs, or command line arguments -screen-fullscreen 0 -window-mode borderless).

In the current version, I can start the game in window mode. But as soon as the intro finishes, the game automatically tries to switch to ExclusiveFullscreen and crashes.

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• Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/tobspr Games/shapez 2/

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📋 Log File Analysis

Log Analysis (Player.log):

1. Fatal Runtime Error: A fatal error occurred in the Mono runtime or one of the native libraries, with native fault reporting also failing, leaving some diagnostic information unavailable.

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[fluid shale]

So apparently the setting moved from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/tobspr Games/shapez 2/settings.json into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/tobspr Games/shapez 2/Local/Display.json.
With that file, I was able to start the game properly:

{
  "resolution.width": "3840",
  "resolution.height": "2160",
  "window-mode": "Windowed"
}

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I'm glad you were able to get running. I'll add this ticket to the tracking issue we have for this.

[fluid shale]

Yep, being on Linux teaches you to solve your own issues 😇
Maybe you should update the instructions in #🔍troubleshooting

[rustic silo]

[1.0.2-rc1][Linux] Fullscreen not working on wayland

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🎫 Many thanks for reporting this issue! We have created an internal ticket for further investigation and will keep you updated. The internal ticket ID is SPZ2-6266 for reference. If you want to provide further information, just comment on this thread.