Linux/Wayland/AppImage EGL_BAD_ALLOC

[postpersonality]

Crashes with Could not create surfaceless EGL display: EGL_BAD_ALLOC. error on start.

Linux, Fedora 42, Cosmic desktop environment (Wayland), GeminiCLIDesktop_0.3.14_amd64.AppImage

[signadou]

Hey @postpersonality! Can you try running Gemini CLI Desktop with this command and see if it fixes the issue?

WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 gemini-cli-desktop

[postpersonality]

Thanks! That did help to actually run the app. But

1. The error Could not create surfaceless EGL display: EGL_BAD_ALLOC. is still there
2. App window renders only a menu bar, but nothing more (clicking on the menu items does nothing)

[signadou]

@postpersonality The window being blank sounds like it could be a graphics issue; could you try adding WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 to your command and see if it helps?

WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 gemini-cli-desktop

About the EGL_BAD_ALLOC error, I'm not positive it's really important, so let's try this fix first and see if it fixes it.

[postpersonality]

The result is the same as WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 gemini-cli-desktop

[signadou]

@postpersonality That's really unfortunate! Can you try these commands in order and see if any of them work?

# Explicitly use XWayland instead of native Wayland.
GDK_BACKEND=x11 WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 gemini-cli-desktop

# If that works, test without `WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER`.
GDK_BACKEND=x11 gemini-cli-desktop

# Try disabling NVIDIA explicit sync (only works for NVIDIA GPUs).
__NV_DISABLE_EXPLICIT_SYNC=1 GDK_BACKEND=x11 gemini-cli-desktop

# Use software rendering (slower).
WEBKIT_FORCE_SANDBOX=0 LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 gemini-cli-desktop

[postpersonality]

@signadou Thanks for your suggestions. My output below:

1. Menu only
2. Black window then crash
3. Black window then crash
4. Black window then crash

Also I've tried to compile (build-all) the app from source but got "failed to run linuxdeploy" however ./target/release/gemini-cli-desktop works fine (no EGL_BAD_ALLOC). Probably something with AppImage bundling.

[signadou]

@postpersonality That's very interesting! I didn't realize you're installing using the AppImage. I was able to reproduce your issue by using the AppImage.

Can you try using the RPM instead? It's specifically for Fedora and other RHEL-based distributions, so it should work perfectly on your system. You can install it with dnf:

sudo dnf install ./GeminiCLIDesktop-0.3.14-1.x86_64.rpm

Here's the link to the RPM for the latest version: https://github.com/Piebald-AI/gemini-cli-desktop/releases/download/v0.3.14/GeminiCLIDesktop-0.3.14-1.x86_64.rpm

[postpersonality]

Sure. The rpm works. I've added info regarding AppImage to the first message and title. Sorry for not being specific about that.