Hello.
After updating GNOME with the “Package Updater” just now, I went on to update flatpak software with the GNOME “Software” management. Now the window of GNOME’s software management is flickering at its borders and shows random colored rectangles. And on the startup screen even writing gets messed up. Rebooting did not help (since there were MESA/GL/GLX/kernel updates). The impression is that this happens when the window tries to update its content. It seems to affect only the GUI. Boldy updating packages appeared to work. Turning off all gnome extensions with the extension manager made no difference.
Here are some screenshots:
Other Windows seem not to be affected (Firefox, Thunderbird, Vivaldi, Brave, pdfarranger, simple scan).
Not sure what to make of it.
Best,
hui
November 23, 2025, 10:39am
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Do you have Packman enabled? Do you have a Mesa package mix between openSUSE and Packman?
Yes, I do have pacman repo in use for ffmpeg-7 after difficulties with h264 codecs.
~> zypper search -si | grep -i Packm
i+ | ffmpeg-7 | package | 7.1.2-1699.3.pm.70 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavcodec61 | package | 7.1.2-1699.3.pm.70 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libavcodec62 | package | 8.0-1699.3.pm.8 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libavdevice61 | package | 7.1.2-1699.3.pm.70 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavfilter10 | package | 7.1.2-1699.3.pm.70 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libavfilter11 | package | 8.0-1699.3.pm.8 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavformat61 | package | 7.1.2-1699.3.pm.70 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libavformat62 | package | 8.0-1699.3.pm.8 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavutil59 | package | 7.1.2-1699.3.pm.70 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libavutil60 | package | 8.0-1699.3.pm.8 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libpostproc58 | package | 7.1.2-1699.3.pm.70 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libswresample5 | package | 7.1.2-1699.3.pm.70 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libswresample6 | package | 8.0-1699.3.pm.8 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libswscale8 | package | 7.1.2-1699.3.pm.70 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libswscale9 | package | 8.0-1699.3.pm.8 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libvlc5 | package | 3.0.21-1699.14.pm.14 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libvlccore9 | package | 3.0.21-1699.14.pm.14 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libx264-164 | package | 0.164+git20231001.31e19f92-1699.1.pm.26 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | libx265-215 | package | 4.1-1699.4.pm.5 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | speechnote | package | 4.8.3-1699.1.pm.83 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | vlc | package | 3.0.21-1699.14.pm.14 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | vlc-noX | package | 3.0.21-1699.14.pm.14 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i | vlc-qt | package | 3.0.21-1699.14.pm.14 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
@smoothtux I’m guessing you have Intel graphics? If so it’s a GTK4/Vulkan issue.
Quick fix add and environment file /etc/environment with GSK_RENDERER=gl save and reboot.
Ref: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/gtk4-crash-with-install-libvulkan-intel/189854
@malcolmlewis Thanks indeed. That did the job!
