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<font face="FreeSerif">This is an FYI for users who have recently </font><font
face="FreeSerif">seen</font><font face="FreeSerif"> (sometime in
Fedora 38/39 or Debian 11 timelines) that Xiphos does not display
text properly in its text widgets. Xiphos starts, no error
messages are seen, menus and buttons show text normally, but the
text windows for Bible, commentary, dictionary, and genbook
content are blank.<br>
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The text is present, but the lack of display is a regression in
recent WebKit, the toolkit which drives these widgets. It's not a
Xiphos bug, and the WK bug is specific to nvidia-enabled machines.
Workarounds for the moment are to set either of these environment
variables before starting Xiphos, which prevent WK from engaging
certain accelerations in nvidia contexts:<br>
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WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1<br>
WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1<br>
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I suggest the latter because it works in more circumstances; the
former isn't successful in certain virtualized environments.<br>
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If a WK fix isn't forthcoming sometime soon, we'll make a fix that
does the above ourselves, internal to Xiphos. But we'd like to
think that WK people will take care of this soon.<br>
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