[Users] Fancy plug in

[John G Walker]

On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 15:44:10 -0000 Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 15:43:37 +0100
> John G Walker via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote: 
> 
> > I just upgraded to the latest release of Kubuntu, out this weekend,
> > and since then the Fancy plug-in in Claws Mail just gives me a
> > blank email. The HTML text is there, since when I switch Fancy off
> > it appears.
> > 
> > One possible explanation that occurs to me is that the OS upgrade
> > has deleted something that Fancy uses. I'm hoping this is the case,
> > since it's a simple matter to install whatever-it-is.
> > 
> > Does anyone who knows more about Fancy than just how to load it (the
> > extent of my knowledge) have any idea how to fix this, simple or
> > otherwise? Has anyone else had this problem?  
> 
> This sounds like it might be the known bug in libwebkit2gtk-4.x. Try
> this:
> 
> Open a shell (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc) and set
> 
> WEBKIT_FORCE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1
> 
> Then start claws-mail from the same shell. See if it fixes it.
> 
> with regards
> 
> Paul
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Thanks. Please remind me again how to set a variable on the command
line. It's a dozen years since I set my system up and I've been running
the same thing over various versions of two operating systems since.

And how would I make sure the variable remains set when I start claws
mail from GUI?

-- 
 All the best,
 John