Bug#1082139: libwebkitgtk-6.0-4:amd64: Regression AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 2:12 PM Michael Rasmussen <mir at datanom.net> wrote:
> It seems 2.46.0 has reintroduced a problem from 2.44.0 which is
> described here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/webkit2gtk/-/issues/1
>
> The intermediate work-around is as described here: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/9304#issuecomment-2028409103
>
> Add the following line to ~/.bashrc:
> WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1
>
> You can test it by running claws-mail using the fancy plugin which is a
> webkit2 bases html renderer.

Ubuntu was carrying a patch for this but we dropped it after 2.45.6.
The patch no longer applies cleanly to 2.46.0

https://salsa.debian.org/webkit-team/webkit/-/merge_requests/20
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.45.6-1ubuntu1

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha