How to launch with some kind of --disable-gpu?

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Hi, I’m having some kind of nouveau issue in an updated Arch installation on an old Dell XPS 15 laptop.
I guess Jami is working fine but I can’t see it (all that appears are visual gibberish typical of a GPU-driver malfunction).
I’m gonna report this with Nouveau developers, but meanwhile, until the bug gets fixed, I found that Chromium (which suffers equally) can avoid the issue launching like:
$ chromium --disable-gpu
Is there any similar option to launch Jami that I could try?
Thanks a lot in advance! Jami is wonderful. <3

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LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 jami -d

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May not work for a snap installation however

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It worked!
Thanks a lot, @sblin ! :heart:
The installation is from Arch official repos (jami-qt package).
I’m testing right now how it works like this. Let you know if there’s something relevant to mention.
Thanks a lot again, your help was enormous! :smiley:

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Hi, don’t know what you mean, @hkk …

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Hi, with all respect, allow me to point some considerations about your comment:

  1. You’re using a non-related not-owned post/thread to claim about subjects completely out of place (no matter if those are real and legitimate subjects), this is always considered bad behaviour and lack of respect, even trolling, in all communities as far as I know.
  2. You seem to demand some kind of technical service or assistance from Mr. sblin, let me ask: have you paid for such dedicated work?, was there some kind of arrangement in that fashion? As far as I know every work here is mostly voluntary. Everybody can ask for help and be thankful if help is given, but nobody can demand nothing (less in a disrespectful manner).
  3. Jami can have lot of problems, but its FLOSS, people develop it and share it freely, so, as previously mentioned, you can benefit from that work and share it and help other people in related matters, but you can’t demand nothing about Jami’s development, except you have some kind of contract with the developers, I guess.

Hope this observations serve some kind of clarification. And sorry in advance if they are out of place or misled.

Kind regards.

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I am sorry that my expression may have lacked respect. I should apologize. Mr. sblin and all members of the team have a very heavy workload, and perhaps they should not be disturbed extra