emacs window a solid black block after a distribution upgrade

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On 1/23/23 08:29, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi Little Girl,
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 14:12, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I see that you've already figured out that the issue happened while
>     using Wayland, but I'm curious whether you've got a setting for this
>     now that you're using Xorg.
>
>
> Bear in mind I am No Expert in this...
>
> I discovered that, when logging in, a cog would appear in the bottom 
> half of the display. Clicking on the cog would allow me to select one 
> of two options for providing the GUI.
>
> I selected the one for "X" and logged in - perfect! emacs (G?UI) 
> window appeared fine, Firefox appeared OK.
You don't happen to be using an NVIDIA card, do you? NVIDIA and Wayland 
are notorious for not working together well in Ubuntu. If this is the 
case, you may want to set X as the default.
>
> The environment variable $XDG_SESSION_TYPE has the value "wayland" 
> when the GUI isn't working properly, and "x11" when it is.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Ian
>
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