Bambu Studio blank white home screen on Linux workaround

Posting here because I’ve been chasing my tail for a week trying to figure this out…

Running Ubuntu Linux 22.04 with Nvidia graphics. I installed system updates last week . The home screen for Bambu Studio is now all white with no visible content. When you mouse over it the cursor changes and you can click to open a random previous project. So the content is there, it’s just not being rendered to the screen.

The issue seems to be a combination of WebKit and the Nvidia newest drivers. Workaround is to set an environment variable before launching:

export WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1
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Thanks a lot, I had the same trouble and this setting does fix the issue.
NVIDIA GT card with NVIDIA proprietary drivers on Linux Debian 12.

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Thank you, this fixed it for me. I tried it on terminal first using:

Exec=env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 /home/path/BambuStudio_linux_ubuntu_v01.08.03.89.AppImage %F

once tested, I created a App Launcher Menu entry, then adding the line of code to the .desktop file. It looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Bambu Studio 1.8.3
Exec=/home/path/BambuStudio_linux_ubuntu_v01.08.03.89.AppImage
Comment=
Exec=env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 /home/path/BambuStudio_linux_ubuntu_v01.08.03.89.AppImage %F
Terminal=false
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
Icon=/home/path/BambuStudio.png
Type=Application
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false

Now it launches fast, no errors, and no annoying “X Stoped Responding” popup error at launch. Everything Renders as it should.

I did the same for Orca Slicer, but I still get the “X Stoped Responding” popup error at launch.

Will keep testing.

hi can you please explain to me what i do as im bad in informatics !