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For me setting the env WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 did not work. What worked is adding this to command line: --nosocket=wayland

Is there a way to update to a beta versions? I have to force a reinstall every time I want to update to a new release.

For those having the black screen issue under wayland:

env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY PathOfBuildingCommunity

You can update the Exec line in your .desktop file to follow this pattern.

@Moxie Thanks for the tip. I was able to disable the Wayland windowing system using Flatseal and now the flatpak version launches correctly.

Running it with wayland seems to give black screen, but with xwayland it works. $ QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb PathOfBuildingCommunity

Adding additional information regarding the "black screen" launch: I am running PoB through flatpak and I am also having the issue with it launching as just a black screen. See information below. I know I have had success with this launching ok in the past, and I also don't believe there's been any PoB updates since that successful launch and now.

System Information:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.9.9-arch1-1 WM: Hyprland (Wayland) Nvidia GPU and drivers. (555.58.02-3) Launched from Wofi which launches the PoB.desktop.

PoB .Desktop File in case there's a key piece of information such as the Exec field:

[Desktop Entry] Name=Path of Building (Community) Comment=Offline build planner for Path of Exile Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=pathofbuilding --file-forwarding community.pathofbuilding.PathOfBuilding @@u %U @@ Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=community.pathofbuilding.PathOfBuilding Categories=Game; Keywords=poe;pob;pobc;path;exile; MimeType=x-scheme-handler/pob; X-Flatpak=community.pathofbuilding.PathOfBuilding

hyprctl clients output (This is with it open as the black screen.):

Window 5f84a24a2290 -> Unnamed build (Scion) - Path of Building: mapped: 1 hidden: 0 at: 1925,7 size: 1618,1426 workspace: 4 (4) floating: 0 pseudo: 0 monitor: 0 class: pobfrontend title: Unnamed build (Scion) - Path of Building initialClass: pobfrontend initialTitle: Unnamed build (Scion) - Path of Building pid: 5147 xwayland: 0 pinned: 0 fullscreen: 0 fullscreenmode: 0 fakefullscreen: 0 grouped: 0 tags: swallowing: 0 focusHistoryID: 4

To add to the mystery, running from tmux in the console, PathOfBuilingCommunity&, works. I notice that the application starts with the X-Windows icon, although it is still running through Wayland. Running the same command directly from the console, no tmux, does not work. The application gets an icon with an yellow circle with a W and is a black screen.

I'm encountering an issue where it launches into just a black screen. I'm not seeing any obvious errors on launch. I'm running hyprland as a WM and know that wayland support can be finnicky.

Are you also using an nVidia card? I have the same issue with nVidia/Wayland/KDE 6. An Intel/Wayland/KDE 6 machine does not have the issue. The issue started with the 2.40.0 release which included the graphics engine overhaul.

I haven't tried the nVidia beta drivers and just installed the POB Windows version using Steam/Proton.

I'm encountering an issue where it launches into just a black screen. I'm not seeing any obvious errors on launch. I'm running hyprland as a WM and know that wayland support can be finnicky.

Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.
Loading main script...
Loading passive tree data for version '3.24'...
Loading passive tree assets...
Processing tree...
Startup time: 761 ms
Uniques loaded
Rares loaded

This is all I get, but the application is just a black screen.