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GNOME Wayland is broken

Why doesn't the app boot on Linux when using GNOME on Wayland?

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Written by Jai Agrawal
Updated over a week ago

If you get an error like Settings schema 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings' does not contain a key named 'antialiasing' Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped), you are using the GNOME desktop environment with a Wayland compositor. This combination causes issues for the Modrinth App.

To get around this, you need to specify the GDK_BACKEND environment variable to x11. In other words:

$ GDK_BACKEND=x11 ~/path/to/Modrinth-App.AppImage

This issue is being tracked as #941.

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