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This package has renamed to vesktop-bin (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vesktop-bin).

Now that Vesktop uses Electron 39, the Wayland flags can be removed. Since Electron 38, it "now defaults to running as a native Wayland app when launched in a Wayland session".

Edit: from the Arch Wiki page about Chromium hardware video acceleration, the only flags needed now are:

• "AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL" to have hardware video acceleration
• "AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL" to possibly have better performance
• "VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs" to add support for the proprietary NVIDIA driver

I was personally able to get around the blank screen issues mentioned by removing the following command line args:

--enable-features=CanvasOopRasterization,VaapiVideoDecoder,UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,PlatformHEVCDecoderSupport,Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE

I also get the same black screen when I open Vesktop.

I've also been having the same black screen issue. I've been temporarily fixing it by installing the latest electron37-bin (37.6.1-1), rebooting, downgrading to electron37-bin 37.6.0, rebooting, and then being able to open vesktop.

I'm unsure if opening vesktop in between reboots is necessary. Honestly I have no idea why this works, or why it only works untill the next reboot.

Currently have the same issue as others are describing in both Wayland and X11 only get a black screen after loading vesktop. Same thing with equibop. The official client works fine.

Having the following issue. Any idea what's going on?

APPIMAGE env is not defined, current application is not an AppImage
Vesktop v1.5.7
Disabled Chromium features: WinRetrieveSuggestionsOnlyOnDemand, HardwareMediaKeyHandling, MediaSessionService
checkForUpdatesAndNotify called, downloadPromise is null
[arRPC > ipc] listening at /run/user/1000/discord-ipc-0
[arRPC > websocket] listening on 6463
[arRPC > process] started
[17206:0702/000039.078554:FATAL:electron/shell/browser/electron_browser_main_parts.cc:502] Failed to shutdown.
zsh: trace trap (core dumped)  vesktop

equibop-bin is gives me the same thing.

@captcapslock I'm trying to fix it by reference the shell script of equibop-bin, will you please try again?

Same issue here like @sethb124 and @zangoku with getting an empty black window after start.

kernel 6.12.33-1-lts arch

KDE Plasma v: 6.3.5

nvidia pv: 575.57.08

x11

electron36 36.4.0-1

vesktop / vesktop-bin 1.5.7-1

launcher.sh[1784320]: checkForUpdatesAndNotify called, downloadPromise is null
launcher.sh[1784320]: Disabled Chromium features: WinRetrieveSuggestionsOnlyOnDemand, HardwareMediaKeyHandling, MediaSessionService
launcher.sh[1784320]: Enabled Chromium features: UseOzonePlatform, WaylandWindowDecorations
launcher.sh[1784320]: Vesktop v1.5.7
launcher.sh[1784320]: APPIMAGE env is not defined, current application is not an AppImage
systemd-coredump[1770269]: [🡕] Process 1770258 (ThreadPoolForeg) of user 1000 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 1770258:
#0  0x000055c7236e3ed8 n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65e2ed8)
#1  0x000055c7236e3e7c close (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65e2e7c)
#2  0x000055c72386f447 n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x676e447)
#3  0x000055c72386f99a n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x676e99a)
#4  0x000055c7236ff4fc n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65fe4fc)
#5  0x000055c7236ff37f n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65fe37f)
#6  0x000055c7236e3ed7 n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65e2ed7)
#7  0x000055c7236e3e7c close (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65e2e7c)
#8  0x000073acf7165126 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xbb126)
#9  0x000073acf71689d4 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xbe9d4)
#10 0x000073acf716a9e6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xc09e6)
#11 0x000073acf71315cc g_spawn_sync (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x875cc)
#12 0x000073ac594551fd spd_open2 (libspeechd.so.2 + 0x61fd)
#13 0x000073ac5945573d spd_open (libspeechd.so.2 + 0x673d)
#14 0x000055c72256d7a5 n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x546c7a5)
#15 0x000055c72256d05e n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x546c05e)
#16 0x000055c723679ef5 n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x6578ef5)
#17 0x000055c7236ad99d n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65ac99d)
#18 0x000055c7236acfe9 n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65abfe9)
#19 0x000055c7236aca9d n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65aba9d)
#20 0x000055c7236c488d n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65c388d)
#21 0x000055c7236c435a n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65c335a)
#22 0x000055c7236c41f1 n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65c31f1)
#23 0x000055c7236e3b17 n/a (/usr/lib/electron36/electron + 0x65e2b17)
#24 0x000073acf4f467eb n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x957eb)
#25 0x000073acf4fca18c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x11918c)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

I'm also having an issue where the window is completely greyed out when I launch Vesktop. Been having it for at least a month. This only happens to me on my laptop running Hyprland, but not on my desktop running KDE Plasma. I've tried using the vesktop and vesktop-electron packages, as well as the electron36-bin package, but none work. For now, I've switched to using Equibop with the equibop-bin package, and everything works fine.

@zangoku I hasn't met the problem like your's. How about upgrade the electron36 version above 36.4.0? Or use electron36-bin instead?