Empty dropdown menus

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on my laptop: Ryzen 4650U, Wayland, Fedora 36 beta

if I change monitor scaling to 200% (without fractional), the menu is no longer empty

Keep monitor scaling at 100%, change font scaling to 1.3, the menu is no longer empty.

Like @sebastianjacobs said: all apps that have problem are electron

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Interesting, some dropdowns work perfectly fine now with changed scaling options in Ubuntu or the electron snap itself. But other dropdowns that have worked before, donā€™t work with these changed options.

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Iā€™m having the same issue on a HP Pavilion desktop with AMD Ryzen 7 5700G.

I first noticed the issue with Beekeeper Studio, mainly because it has so many of these menus. What I have found is that if I keep clicking on things and tell it to ā€œwaitā€ when the application is not responding, eventually, it will populate all of the menus and function normally.

I have also noticed the issue with slack (also electron,) mainly on the right-click menus, which I hardly ever use, so itā€™s not really a big deal.

$ snap version
snap    2.56.2
snapd   2.56.2
series  16
ubuntu  22.04
kernel  5.15.0-33-generic

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Release:	22.04
Codename:	jammy

$ uname -a
Linux compy386 5.15.0-33-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 18 13:34:26 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ env | grep DESKTOP
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
DESKTOP_SESSION=ubuntu
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=ubuntu
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=ubuntu:GNOME

$ sudo lshw -c video
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Cezanne
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: c8
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix vga_controller bus_master cap_list fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=amdgpu latency=0 resolution=2560,1440
       resources: irq:30 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e01fffff ioport:f000(size=256) memory:fca00000-fca7ffff
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I followed the instructions here to unsquash beekeeper-studio and edit the snap.yaml to add a layout. AMD OSS graphics drivers missing access to amdgpu.ids file

I used the layout as described in this firefox bug. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1710326#c4

layout:
  /usr/share/libdrm:
    bind: $SNAP/gnome-platform/usr/share/libdrm

I am no longer getting the message about missing amdgpu.ids, but it did not change the behavior of the menus in the application.

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Just tested it again with the newest Ubuntu version.

Looks like Canonical donā€™t care or they donā€™t know how to fix this. They are completely focused on the snaps they are publishing (Firefox and Steam). Meanwhile on a lot of systems third-party snaps (such as Bitwarden, Beekeeper Studio, Insomnia, Standard Notes, ā€¦) are broken.

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why would a newer ubuntu version fix anything in the electron shipped in the snaps ?

it is obviously something thatā€™s going wrong between electron and amdgpu and likely only a re-build of the snaps against a fixed/newer electron (if that exists yet) would fix the issue here ā€¦

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Is this a fact? There could also be something going wrong between snap and amdgpuā€¦

I mean it works on Flatpaks and Deb packagesā€¦

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using the exact same electron versions as the snaps ?

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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/skype-desktop-879095-manjaro-linux-dropdown-menus/c6738905-b59e-4f80-9bc8-7c116c0504c3