** Description changed:

  Audacity doesn't work here on either focal or eoan, because the main
  section of the window (where the waveform should show up and where you
  click to make selections) doesn't draw at all, as if it's never getting
  expose events.
  
  I'm using the Openbox window manager, not the Gnome desktop. I'm seeing
- the same behavior mentioned for the i3 window on arch manager in
+ the same behavior mentioned for the i3 window manager on arch in
  https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=391004#p391004 and I've
  seen reports of it happening in other WMs as well. I'll attach a
  screenshot, but really the report in that audacity forum post covers it.
  
  So why am I reporting it as an Ubuntu bug instead of upstream audacity?
  Because according to that report and a few others I've seen, and most of
  the build documentation for audacity (which mostly recommends using gtk2
  rather than gtk3), this is a wx-gtk3 problem: compiling audacity with
  wx-gtk2 instead of wx-gtk3 fixes the problem. I have not been able to
  verify this, because although I've been able to build audacity from
  source against libwxgtk3.0-gtk3 (the problem still occurs), focal
  doesn't provide a wx-gtk2 option, and I haven't managed to get wxWidgets
  to build for either gtk2 or gtk3.
  
  No one seems to understand what the core problem is that makes audacity
  fail to draw under wx-gtk3 in some window managers, just that it happens
  (which makes audacity completely unusable). But if wx-gtk2 was
  available, audacity built against that might well work for everyone.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5 3.0.4+dfsg-15build1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-28.32-generic 5.4.30
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-28-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  Date: Thu Apr 30 17:35:00 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-29 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
  SourcePackage: wxwidgets3.0
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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  audacity (with libwxgtk3.0-gtk3) doesn't draw on non-gnome systems

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