Some apps are just blank and unusable

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Hey guys, not sure what happened or if I installed something wrong but some of my applications like Firefox (flatpak) and gnome-control-center are just showing as blank when I open them. If I select them from overview, it stays as blank and can't select anything from it. This issue doesn't happen on all gnome/flatpak apps.

Any idea how can I troubleshoot this further?

Im on Fedora SilverBlue 37

EDIT: upgraded to 38, but same issue. Posted in AskFedora - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/some-apps-are-just-blank-and-unusable/85600

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Ahhh I see. Might be an issue with the Nvidia drivers and Wayland.

I would try the following in order and see if any of them fixes it:

  1. Update your system "rpm-ostree update" and reboot

  2. Make sure you are on a Wayland session. This also provides instructions to see what apps are in X11 mode (which I suspect Firefox and Software Center are in your case).

  • 2.1 If you are already on Wayland (its the default in Fedora 37): Install Flatseal and force Wayland for Firefox (toggle off X11 and 'Fallback to X11')

  • 2.2 If you are on X11, logout and switch to Wayland in the login screen and follow 2.1 to force Firefox to Wayland.

  1. If that doesn't work I would follow these specific steps to install Nvidia on silverblue. RPM Fusion also has some specific guides for Silverblue that you should check to see if you missed a step.

  2. I would also consider upgrading to Fedora 38, and bump up your RPM fusion major version to track Fedora 38.

I always use Wayland and already installed nvidia drivers. Upgrading now to 38, will update later