app-editors/zed runtime: `Err` value: BadNativeWindow

[CaptainBlood]

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[I] app-editors/zed
     Available versions:  0.181.5 ~0.183.10 ~0.185.13 [m]~0.185.16[1] ~0.186.8 [m]~0.186.10[1] {debug gles LLVM_SLOT="+19"}
     Installed versions:  0.186.8(03:19:50 19/05/2025)(gles -debug LLVM_SLOT="19")

Intel 520 iGP here. vulvan"s vkcube displaying fine.

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tail -n30 ~/.local/share/zed/logs/Zed.log 
2025-05-20T13:59:45+03:00 INFO  [zbus::connection::socket_reader] read_socket;
2025-05-20T13:59:45+03:00 INFO  [zbus::connection::socket_reader] read_socket;
2025-05-20T13:59:46+03:00 INFO  [zbus::connection::socket_reader] read_socket;
2025-05-20T13:59:46+03:00 INFO  [zbus::connection::socket_reader] read_socket;
2025-05-20T13:59:46+03:00 INFO  [zbus::connection::socket_reader] read_socket;
2025-05-20T13:59:46+03:00 INFO  [extension_host] installing extension html latest version
2025-05-20T13:59:46+03:00 INFO  [gpui::platform::linux::x11::window] Using Visual { id: 162, colormap: 0, depth: 32 }
2025-05-20T13:59:46+03:00 INFO  [gpui::platform::linux::x11::window] Creating colormap 44040195
2025-05-20T13:59:46+03:00 WARN  [blade_graphics::hal::platform] Unable to forbid exclusive full screen
2025-05-20T13:59:47+03:00 ERROR [zed::reliability] {
  "thread": "main",
  "payload": "called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: BadNativeWindow",
  "location_data": {
    "file": "/var/no-tmpfs/portage/app-editors/zed-0.186.8/work/blade-b16f5c7bd873c7126f48c82c39e7ae64602ae74f/blade-graphics/src/gles/egl.rs",
    "line": 431
  },
  "backtrace": [
    "__libc_start_main+23186510913007"
  ],
  "app_version": "0.186.8",
  "release_channel": "stable",
  "target": "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu",
  "os_name": "Linux X11",
  "os_version": "gentoo 2.17",
  "architecture": "x86_64",
  "panicked_on": 1747738787004,
  "system_id": "3bb9c32c-c62d-4943-8355-c73511da7911",
  "installation_id": "d35ea25a-0f9e-44bc-89c5-abc62b5754b6",
  "session_id": "afa394d1-9e6f-423f-b131-5f680ac80a0b"

In this respect upstream report seems to state USE=gles issue low level of priority.

latest keyworded package here...
Any experience to share with stable app-editors/zed-0.181.5 [gles]?
How does/did it behave on your side?

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.

[SumDog]

I had this exact same issue and found this thread. Rebuilding app-editors/zed with -gles fixed the startup problem.

Honestly I'm not impressed by Zed so far. The thing I hate about VSCode and Sublime (besides Sublime not being OSS and vscode requiring some bits to be hacked out to be OSS) is that there are not vertical tabs. Someone started on a hack to get vertical tabs, but it was never flushed out into a full patch:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/24006

If I liked the editor, I might have looked into trying to get this patch clean and complete. I don't see the massive appeal in getting a 120fps throughput on an editor. It's not FPS gaming. I do realize that Pulsar (formerly Atom) is Electron cancer, but it's the only one besides IntelliJ with vertical tabs (via specific themes), and stuff like that matters more than performance. Like, opening a file and searching still happens about just as fast in every editor.