Hi Everyone, I installed Unreal Engine 5.7.4 on POP OS 24.04 and unfortunately the Editor is broken. I suspect this is a wayland compatibility issues, the bugs so far are :
The dropdown menus/tooltips appear in the center of the screen, no matter where the window is.
I cannot press most of the dropdown menus buttons.
Notification popup cannot be interracted with or destroyed.
I made sure it is working through X11. also tried to run it with dx11 rather than 12, and disable FSAA/FXAA. disabling Tooltips seem to help but it is still broken
Hey there @Hamzo1999! Welcome to the community! There’s a known issue with some Linux windows managers and the recent updates. The change to SDL3 has been causing some issues, and there’s a couple workarounds in this thread. Hope this helps!
Thank you for your advice. I did check that post before I posted and sadly it didn’t help. I do not know if there is a COSMIC-specific issue. I am not sure or proficient enough tbh to figure it out. But I saw that 5.6 works just fine, so I would try that and see.
From what I gather this issue is prevalent across multiple Linux environments, and since the change itself is largely systemic, a hotfix likely won’t suffice. Definitely give 5.6 a try and let me know how it goes!
I got to try it out now for a while. and 5.6 works well but some popup windows cannot be interracted with, like the autosave popup. It is not as bad as before. I did not look too much for a solution cause I had to start working on what I had to do
Ahh so it’s possible there was a preexisting interaction with COSMIC and Unreal’s transient windows. I can’t find any fixes or workarounds specifically in 5.6 as the original transience issue for most linux users was corrected prior to it. Was 5.6 the earliest instance of issues?
Understandable, if the fixes that come in the next updates don’t correct it, I would recommend leaving a bug report in case the issue lies with the window transience as before.