How to launch with some kind of --disable-gpu?

Aug 9, 2024
R

Hi, I’m having some kind of nouveau issue in an updated Arch installation on an old Dell XPS 15 laptop.
I guess Flatpak apps are working fine but I can’t see them (all that appears are visual gibberish typical of a GPU-driver malfunction).
I’m gonna report this with Nouveau developers, but meanwhile, until the bug gets fixed, I found that Chromium (which suffers equally) can avoid the issue launching like:
$ chromium --disable-gpu
Is there any similar option to launch Flatpak apps that I could try?
I checked flatpak --help but couldn’t find anything…
Thanks a lot in advance! Flatpak is great. <3

R

I’m not sure, but you could try if removing some permission with flatseal might help.

You can try deactivating GPU acceleration for e.g.

J
Replying to #2

please also any advice on good emulators for android games and apps for arm. does not run apk at all? No way to send you a private meesage

R
Replying to #3

no idea, there is waydroid to run android apps, but no idea if it runs on arm - and it’s not installable via flatpak