[Solved] Firefox/Librewolf on Wayland hamburger menu bug

The Main Man · Last edited by The Main Man on Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:57 am; edited 1 time in total

When I click on hamburger menu sometimes it shows, sometime it doesn't, but mostly it doesn't.
Anyone else has this problem and if yes, is there a cure for it ?
Running Sway here.

btw with -wayland it works fine.

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

why this is called hamburger menu?

- seeing the name first time, after all this years, funny !

do you mean the menu on upper right of menu bar?

i also use Sway (only system) with xwayland disabled at startup - the menu works for me.

which version of FF are you using?

and do you have this option in your users .profile?

The Main Man · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:33 am Post subject:

Yeah that one

People call it like that so I called it like that as well heheh, I googled the issue and it's been there for quite some time it seems, it manifested differently over the years, sometimes it's too big etc.
I don't have that option set as variable but I've tried it and it didn't change a thing.
I also tried changing a desktop file, as suggested in the librewolf FAQ for Wayland, still the problem is there.

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

there was a bug, but some time ago, e.g. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7009

then i switched to *.9999 versions of wayland related ebuilds.

i'am not sure if this has something to do,but do have options like this in your sway config?

The Main Man · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:08 am Post subject:

Issue is still open though.

Yes, I have also problems with bookmarks, menus etc. sometimes it works but like I said, mostly it doesn't.
It's usable, but it can be frustrating.

I used to run the very latest for wlroots, wayland and related ebuilds, but then I decided to revert back to stable, few months back, maybe it's that.
I'll try that again, out of curiosity, and see if the problem is still there.

I don't have those options in the sway config, but if upgrading wayland ebuilds doesn't help, then I'll try that as well.
If you don't have this problem then surely I can replicate that on my system as well

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

here's my complete list of application_defaults option for Sway:

The Main Man · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:26 am Post subject:

Thanks a lot man, I'll post results when it's done

btw I have xwayland, been using qt-creator, and this one also has some weird UI problems, with designer only though, bizarre mouse positioning, controls out of place etc.
So I had to use "Exec=/usr/bin/qtcreator -platform xcb" for that one, beside those two apps I don't have other problems.
It's probably solved with latest wayland versions of libs, because I'm using librewolf/firefox for a very long time and I don't recall those problems, but then I decided to use stable packages globally, including those, so it's probably that, kinda those problems started in that timeframe, but I didn't pay much attention to it until recently.

The Main Man · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:29 am Post subject:

Hmm, but sway is already on latest version, as well as xwayland, the only one behind is wlroots, I have 0.15.0-r2 and the latest is 0.15.1, so not that bad.
What else is there ?

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

librewolf is sometimes versions behind and i didn't like it at all, because it was always more buggy than orig FF, imho.

that's why switched to pg_overlays FF >>> it has also couple of security patches and such.

have you also tried with clean start of FF? <<< make a backup of your current FF folder before :!:

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The Main Man · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:42 am Post subject:

No, it's current, few days behind FF, but that's not an issue.
I did try clean FF profile, I did testing with FF, just to exclude Librewolf, and it's the same problem in both.

I'll emerge 9999 of wlroots and sway, but I don't know, now I think it might be something else, I thought stable versions was more behind.

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

here's a list of all of my live ebuilds, just for comparison :

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

The Main Man · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:04 am Post subject:

It started in my case and I can't believe but the problem is gone now

Here's me switching to 9999 btw

https://postimg.cc/f3Lv5pnW

I didn't change anything else, config etc.

Interesting, I'll monitor the situation from now on and see which commit exactly solved this issue, then slowly downgrade from 9999's.

Thanks bud :!:

Edit:
Wow, even qtcreator is solved , awesome.

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

The Main Man · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:18 am Post subject:

It looks great, btw the next step is to drop xwayland

The only reason I have it is because of some games, but I don't know why I even bother with those, since I play them occasionally, very rare lately.

I just remembered kodi, I also had to run that one with "--windowing=x11" option, otherwise I got blackscreen.
Now that works as well, omg this really made me happy

btw I don't know when they fixed this but I think new version should be released very soon :idea:

This isn't a small thing.

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

The Main Man · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:33 am Post subject:

Very good tip, thanks again !

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

The Main Man · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 6:29 pm Post subject:

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

The Main Man · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 6:58 pm Post subject:

Interesting, I had some problems with something, so I was "forced" to try all I can, which included some env variables I didn't have, out of curiosity, and I had problems setting env variables in Sway for a long time.
Tried various places and noone worked, except /etc/environment and /etc/env.d/

btw latest git versions of sway and wlroots solved some problems but the also introduced few new ones, nothing major but there are some visual glitches now when I switch workspaces, which I didn't have with version releases.

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1438 Location: Earth

be careful with git versions, especially wlroots.

what is your output of,as user: emerge --info -v at the end ?

here's mine:

The Main Man · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:34 pm Post subject:

I know, but this problem with git version is much worse with normal version release, different problems though, but if I have to choose now which one to use it would be git, so I'll keep it going for now.

As for env variables, I didn't have any set for Wayland or Sway at all, and it works fine, had to set two ariables in the past, for qt5ct and Java, and that only works if set in /etc...
For example I can't even set something simple like BROSWER variable to work, not even in .zshrc, which is odd, though some variables do work in .zshrc, but not all, they got nothing to do with Sway/Wayland btw, like this one works for example : export EDITOR="nvim", or this one : export MANPAGER='nvim +Man!' , or this one : export VDPAU_DRIVER=radeonsi
but : export BROWSER=librewolf, no way.

I mean it's not really a problem, like I said , having them all in /etc/environment works, I was just curious in your case what are you using for that.

Now, I've set some variables last night (took the list from you, what I quoted earlier) , it didn't change a thing, but they are active and set, so I guess I'll leave them.

emerge --info -v

The Main Man · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:47 pm Post subject:

btw I don't use login managers and such, after the boot I just login from the terminal and then issue :

Leonardo.b · Apprentice Joined: 10 Oct 2020 Posts: 297

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button