[SOLVED] Glitchy Electron on intel/amd macbook 2015 | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

outer vigil Feb 28, 2025, 6:36 PM

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I've installed Arch+Hyprland on an old 2015 macbook and am having trouble with electron apps. I've only tried Discord and VSCode, but, both seem to be rendering "glitchy"

What I've tried:
env = ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT,wayland in my hyprland.conf
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 discord
env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY discord (Segfaults after failing to initialize Wayland platform)
DSI_PRIME=1 discord
discord --enable-feature=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
discord --no-sandbox0

I'm aware that electron has some issues with Wayland, but, I'm not sure what else to try. Any advice would be helpful.

shadow escarp Feb 28, 2025, 6:42 PM

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@outer vigil try discord canary

outer vigil Feb 28, 2025, 6:43 PM

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I think I did but, I'll try again. From git, pacman, or flatpak?

shadow escarp Feb 28, 2025, 6:44 PM

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outer vigil I think I did but, I'll try again. From git, pacman, or flatpak?

aur/flatpak

outer vigil Feb 28, 2025, 6:45 PM

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I'm pretty sure I tried aur last time since I don't have the flatpak-beta remote; so I'll try flatpak this time. One moment.

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Looks like the flatpak has some docs on opting in to wayland support. https://github.com/flathub/com.discordapp.DiscordCanary

I'll try it without first the opt-in first.

GitHub

GitHub - flathub/com.discordapp.DiscordCanary

Contribute to flathub/com.discordapp.DiscordCanary development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Well, without the opt-in, canary segfaults. With it, my OS freezes.

shadow escarp Feb 28, 2025, 6:51 PM

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outer vigil Well, without the opt-in, canary segfaults. With it, my OS freezes.

try discord-ptb

outer vigil Feb 28, 2025, 6:57 PM

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Same glitchiness. The full OS freeze / crash seems to happen when Discord finishes installing updates.

Splash.onStateUpdate: { ..., "progress": 100 }

shadow escarp Feb 28, 2025, 7:00 PM

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outer vigil Same glitchiness. The full OS freeze / crash seems to happen when Discord finish...

discord_arch_electron

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or discord-canary-electron-bin

outer vigil Feb 28, 2025, 7:06 PM

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No change with either of them. I'm going to remove the env = ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT,wayland from my hyprland.conf to see if anything changes.

shadow escarp Feb 28, 2025, 7:07 PM

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@outer vigil worked for me fsdeshrug

outer vigil Feb 28, 2025, 7:07 PM

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Tried in a VM or something?

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Removing the env variable has it working now...

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facepalm

shadow escarp Feb 28, 2025, 7:08 PM

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outer vigil Tried in a VM or something?

no

shadow escarp Feb 28, 2025, 7:08 PM

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shadow escarp no

outer vigil Feb 28, 2025, 7:10 PM

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DiscordCanary seems to function without the env variable. Regular ol' Discord does not.

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Thank you for the help by the way. I'm still not entirely sure what the problem might be, which bothers me, but, at least I'm closer.

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I think you can see in the screenshot I posted but, my machine is intel CPU, and has an integrated intel card as well as a discrete amd gpu. I thought the issue might be related to which GPU discord was using, but, I'm not sure how to force the use of just one gpu over the other.

outer vigil Mar 1, 2025, 8:17 PM

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[SOLVED] Glitchy Electron on intel/amd macbook 2015

#[SOLVED] Glitchy Electron on intel/amd macbook 2015