Easy fix if the filebot GUI shows a grey screen and you use the sway window manager (and possibly others)

[fthrfrl]

Add the following alias to your .zshrc / .bashrc / wherever you add aliases:

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alias fbg="env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY filebot"

and replace "fbg" with whatever you want your new command alias to be.

Launching filebot with these arguments forces it to run under xwayland which works fine but has slightly jagged fonts. Doesn't seem to fundamentally be a wayland issue as it works for me on wayland gnome, just not on sway. This is definitely a workaround so maybe rednoah will get a chance to sus out what's going on with the rendering engine, but it's good enough for the immediate future.

[sighunter]

thanks, this helped me!

my menus didn't show up and were only white and blank,
I adapted your command for my flatpak install of filebot and I now start it this way:

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env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY flatpak run net.filebot.FileBot

also this should work too, I guess

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WAYLAND_DISPLAY= flatpak run net.filebot.FileBot

so it's forced to use xwayland, which makes this a wayland issue on my end, not sure why it appeared about 1 week ago, probably by some update I installed

[Razze]

I'll add this for the time being https://github.com/flathub/net.filebot.FileBot/pull/18

[sighunter]

I'll add this for the time being https://github.com/flathub/net.filebot.FileBot/pull/18

I don't know if this is generally necessary, I used filebot with plain wayland for some time without issues, just a few days/weeks ago this started to happen