Re: [solved] Re: Thunderbird black at first launch with F38

On 5/4/23 05:53, John Mellor wrote: > On 2023-05-04 02:01, Frederic Muller wrote: >> On 04/05/2023 12:48, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 5/3/23 21:07, Frederic Muller wrote: >>>> Installed F38 about a week ago from scratch (wayland & GNOME). >>>> When I launch Thunderbird the first time at every session it >>>> starts as a black screen except for the title bar and then... I >>>> believe nothing happens but since I cannot see anything I close >>>> it. When I relaunch it everything works normally. >>>> >>>> Not really a life threatening situation but I was wondering if it >>>> was possible to fix this. Any idea? >>> >>> Are you running "Thunderbird" or "Thunderbird on Wayland"? >>> If you don't have the second one, try installing it. >>> "thunderbird-wayland" is the package. >>> _______________________________________________ >> Yes! That was exactly the problem. Thank you so much. > > Excellent catch!  That fixed it for me too.  I upgraded from F37 to > F38, and it did not require this extra package under F37. > > There is probably a bug in the upgrade, as it should install the > extra package to fix the problem.  However, I cannot find a bugzilla > for reporting this issue. On F37, I can use either one, but I prefer to use the Wayland option so less things are using XWayland.  They both should work on F38 as well. You could file a bug in bugzilla if there isn't already one.