fix: force GTK3 on Linux to prevent white screen on Arch/CachyOS - #44
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Electron's GTK4 renderer paints the window white on many Arch-based distros (CachyOS reported in #43). The main process still starts, so Discord RPC connects, but the network service crashes and the renderer never shows content. The existing Vulkan/Ozone workarounds handle Wayland but not this GTK4 rendering bug. Force GTK3 via --gtk-version=3, following the fix confirmed in Arch BBS #306492. Sandbox stays enabled. Fixes #43 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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this commit still gives me white scren when i build it D: |
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Summary
--gtk-version=3in the Linux startup block so Electron's GTK4 renderer doesn't paint white on Arch-based distros (CachyOS in particular).Why this fixes #43
The user's log shows Discord RPC connecting (main process is fine) followed immediately by
Network service crashed or was terminated, restarting serviceand a white window. That pattern matches the well-known GTK4 paint failure in Electron (electron/electron#33690) — the renderer never finishes its first paint, the utility processes tear down, and the window stays blank. The confirmed community fix from Arch BBS #306492 is--gtk-version=3, which is what this PR adds.Does not use
--no-sandbox,--disable-gpu, or any of the flags that would reduce security.Test plan
Fixes #43
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