How can I disable hardware acceleration?

Issues
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Bug report

Inkdrop freezes frequently on Linux kernel 5.x.
Other electron based apps freeze too.

I found related issue in electron GitHub repository.

It indicates that disabling hardware acceleration is a workaround.
Other apps (chrome, vscode, and slack) have the hardware acceleration option in the preferences or the configuration file.

How can I disable hardware acceleration on Inkdrop?

Info

  • Platform: Manjaro Linux
  • Platform version: 5.4.80-2-MANJARO
  • App Version: 5.2.0
$ uname -r
5.4.80-2-MANJARO
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Try launching Inkdrop with --disable-gpu

1 Like
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I’m planning to upgrade Electron to 12 when released.

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Thanks!
I’ll try it.

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I’m planning to upgrade Electron to 12 when released.

I’m looking forward to it.
But latest stable Google Chrome 87.0.4280.88 and vscode 1.52.1 which is based on Electron 9.3.5 freeze too.
So upgrading to newer Electron might not fix the issue.