Skip to content

fix(linux): disable WebKit DMA-BUF renderer to prevent Wayland crash #474

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
Charlisim wants to merge 2 commits into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
+12 −0
Open

fix(linux): disable WebKit DMA-BUF renderer to prevent Wayland crash #474

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
f5d5d82
fix(linux): disable WebKit DMA-BUF renderer to prevent Wayland protoc…
Charlisim Jun 16, 2026
5bbaaaa
fix(linux): disable Nvidia explicit sync on Wayland to prevent WebKit…
Charlisim Jun 17, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions crates-tauri/yaak-app-client/src/main.rs
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
#![cfg_attr(not(debug_assertions), windows_subsystem = "windows")]

fn main() {
// On Nvidia + Wayland, WebKit2GTK's DMA-BUF renderer triggers a protocol error (71) due to
// an explicit sync bug (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280210). Disabling explicit
// sync via the Nvidia driver avoids the crash without disabling hardware acceleration.
#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
if std::env::var("__NV_DISABLE_EXPLICIT_SYNC").is_err()
&& std::env::var("WAYLAND_DISPLAY").is_ok()
&& std::path::Path::new("/sys/module/nvidia").exists()
{
// SAFETY: called before any threads are spawned.
unsafe { std::env::set_var("__NV_DISABLE_EXPLICIT_SYNC", "1") };
}

tauri_app_client_lib::run();
}