Bug#1078769: libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0: libwebkit2gtk does not render or is unresponsive if run in VMware guest with 3D acceleration enabled

[Alberto Garcia]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 02:27:12PM -0600, Markus Hamilton wrote:
> I have 2 programs installed which use this webkit rendering library:
> "yelp" and "surf". yelp does not render anything. surf renders a
> website to some degree but usually there is no way to enter any
> input. If you instruct surf to render "duckduckgo.com", you cannot
> enter anything into the search bar.
> 
> This problem happens only when run in an installation which is a
> VMware guest.  VMware version is current (17.5.0), running in a
> Windows 10 host. All VMware drivers and utilities inside the Linux
> VM have been installed from the offical Debian repo.
> 
> The problem definitely has something to do with 3D acceleration
> because if I turn that off in VMware, libwebkit2gtk works just fine
> inside the Linux VM.

Can you confirm that it also works if you set the environment variable
WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 ?

Berto