Annotator (flatpak) doesn't work after upgrading to 2.0

[edubxb]

When trying to launch it from the terminal, I got:

I'm using Debian Testing, GNOME 47 with Wayland.

If you need more information or details, just tell me.

Thanks in advance, I really appreciate this project, I use it in a daily basis!

[lidgnulinux]

I'm facing it too. Downgrade to 1.2.1 seems work on Wayland.

[phase1geo]

I can't really say that I fully understand how Wayland stuff works, but Annotator 2.0 is written in Gtk4 which is Wayland compatible, so I don't think the issue is with Annotator itself.

You could try to install Flatseal, find Annotator and change it to use the X11 socket and disable Wayland and fallback-x11. This seems to work on Kubuntu 24.10.

[phase1geo]

This issue also doesn't seem limited to Annotator. There are other flatpak apps that having the same problem in Ubuntu-based distros (see https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5996 as an example of this).

[edubxb]

I can't really say that I fully understand how Wayland stuff works, but Annotator 2.0 is written in Gtk4 which is Wayland compatible, so I don't think the issue is with Annotator itself.

You could try to install Flatseal, find Annotator and change it to use the X11 socket and disable Wayland and fallback-x11. This seems to work on Kubuntu 24.10.

That workaround works, thanks!

[edubxb]

This issue also doesn't seem limited to Annotator. There are other flatpak apps that having the same problem in Ubuntu-based distros (see flatpak/flatpak#5996 as an example of this).

Debian-based 😜.

[Aleksanaa]

The same problem can be reproduced on NixOS unstable (not flatpak), and the previous version is also normal. The compositor is Hyprland. Other granite7 applications don't have this issue.

[Aleksanaa]

Also reported in https://github.com/phase1geo/Annotator/issues/110#issuecomment-2475765541

[lidgnulinux]

Also reported in #110 (comment)

It's not related ! #110 is about build failure due to GTK.

[Aleksanaa]

😮‍💨

[kiilo]

did proposed setting by flatseal:

flatpak run com.github.phase1geo.annotator

Failed to register: Timeout was reached

this is on Fedora release 41

[luzpaz]

Any traction here ?

[phase1geo]

No change in terms of the Annotator code base.

[umasse]

Just today I ran into this. Using Flatseal, disable Wayland, Fallback-X11, and enable X11 and GPU acceleration (device=dri). Then it works.

[gilsoncav]

Same problem here in Fedora Silverblue 42.

Jun 27 13:50:54 fedora systemd[2581]: Started app-flatpak-com.github.phase1geo.annotator-1246317346.scope.
Jun 27 13:50:54 fedora systemd[2581]: app-flatpak-com.github.phase1geo.annotator-922685195.scope: Consumed 1.629s CPU time, 81.6M memory peak.
Jun 27 13:50:54 fedora com.github.phas[159443]: Failed to open display

Changing to X11 (disabling Wayland as indicated makes it run apparently ok). I used Flatseal app to change flatpak settings for it.

[natanox]

Problem can also be replicated on OpenSuse Tumbleweed (installed directly via Flatpak repo). Workaround disabling the Wayland windowing system works.