** Description changed: - This is very similar to bug #1966418, but only concerns the email edit - window. + Impact + ------- + The new/edit email dialog in Evolution crashes the app when it is closed. + + Test Case + --------- + Install the update + Open the Settings app. Click the About button at the bottom of the left sidebar (you may need to scroll down to see it). Verify that the Windowing System is Wayland. + Open Evolution. + Click the New Email button. + Add some text to the body section of the draft email. + The text should be visible. + Close the dialog. + Choose Discard. + The edit email window should close but Evolution should remain open. + + Regression Potential + -------------------- + One line fix to stop a really annoying crash by disabling hardware acceleration. + + The webkitgtk and Ubuntu Desktop developers suspect that switching + webkit2gtk to build with the wpebackend will avoid the invisible text + and the crash (LP: #1964922), but it requires main inclusion for + additional libraries. The main inclusion will be worked on over the next + few months. + + Original Bug Report + ------------------- + This is very similar to bug #1966418, but only concerns the email edit window. Before bug #1966418 was fixed, Evolution did not display email contents when running under Wayland. Starting Evolution with WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 worked around the issue. Now that #1966418 is fixed, displaying email contents works again even without the workaround. However, it's still not possible to write/edit an email. The message area is greyed out and unresponsive. When running under X or using the above workaround, editing emails works. So the issue seems to be the same as in #1966418, but for the edit window. Workaround #1 ------------- Open a terminal and run this command: WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 evolution Workaround #2 ------------- Log out. Select your name on the login screen. Click the gear button and choose Ubuntu on Xorg. Enter your password to finish logging in.
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