Unreal Editor 5.7 UI interaction is broken on Linux for ~3 month already

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Summary

As the title says, the UI is broken. Mouse clicks don’t work properly - you have to click 2–3 times to get a response, and if an action requires a double-click, you need to click 5–6 times. Popup menus are rendered somewhere in the center of the editor window and don’t respond to the mouse at all, while tooltips are rendered in the middle of the screen.

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

UI/Tools

Steps to Reproduce

Start UE build 5.7 on Linux.
Enjoy broken UI interactions.

Expected Result

To enjoy flawless UI interactions.

Observed Result

Buttons and menus are not responding to clicks as expected.

UE 5.6 works without any issues an same system.

Platform(s)

Linux, Wayland

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isn’t 5.7 not released yet? there isn’t even a branch. so i don’t think it’s fair to expect

they are moving to sdl 3 afaik. that could break stuff.

btw i think it’s important that you share your distro and desktop environment too.

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Yes, 5.7 hasn’t been released yet but actually 5.7 existed prior to the release of 5.6, so this bug has already been around for 3+ months. Three months is enough to start worrying that such a critical bug can slip into a release.

It’s Fedora 42, Gnome, Wayland

BTW Epic games added 5.7 branch 3 days ago.

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I’d say its normal to not worry about 5.7 before 5.6 is stable. You cant expect it to work well. That’s an experimental branch.

Even as of now, 5.7 is still a working branch so its expected to be broken.

Also wayland is not supported.

I do hope they fix it, its ok to report it, but i wouldnt get very stressed about it yet.

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We already have a preview version of 5.7, but the error is still there. The release is coming soon, and then we’ll have this problem. And, of course, the same error is now present in 5.8.

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have you tried reporting it on the ue 5.7 preview thread? or the bug tracker?

not that it will solve it, but it will bring attention to it.

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I tried to add it to the bug tracker, but the bug tracker itself is a bit… buggy, so I couldn’t add it. :rofl:

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that’s true. try adding it to that post i’ve shared, they monitor that.

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Not only on Linux, I’m on windows 11 and I’m not able to click buttons, drag windows and do most of the operations (and I’m in the preview build, not in the source build)

I hope this gets addressed before the stable release because I can’t find anything about this!

(It’s happening only on some projects, e.g. the NDisplay template)

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Have the same issue on Fedora 43 wayland, I tried playing with the dpi scaling but nothing fixed it. Fab doesn’t work on 5.6 because of some cef chromium issue.

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The status of FORT-1004112 changed to ‘Needs Triage’. We’ve confirmed the issue and it’s waiting to be assigned to someone to fix it.