Gazebo requires X11 to run

[icefoxen]

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When I try to run gzclient on a Linux computer using Sway or another Wayland window manager, it crashes with the following message: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'gazebo::common::Exception'. “gzclient” terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort). This appears to be the same as this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816487 and has the same resolution: running XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 gazebo works. That old bug report is for Gazebo 9 and I am seeing this is still a problem using gazebo-11.1.0 on Debian 11.

[Sabrin0]

Hi @icefoxen, did you solve the issue? Because I'm using Gazebo 11 and I got the same error 😢

[eliasffyksen]

If you just want to run it, have you tried running it with XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 gazebo as the fist comment suggests. I had this issue and this solved it. iirc the problem had to do with gazebo not thinking that it can run in a wayland session (while it's actually fine), adding the XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 makes it "think" that it is in a X11 session. This solution worked find for me at least