Gnome 48 Issues - Anyone Experiencing These?

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Hi all, I’m experiencing a few issues with Gnome 48, and thought I would ask if anyone else is experiencing the same.

OS: EndeavourOS Mercury (Arch based, fresh install) with Gnome 48.

Hardware: AMD GPU (9070 XT) with the latest Mesa drivers, Ryzen 9950X3D, Dell 5K2K (5120x2160) with 125% scaling.

Issues resizing windows: Resizing windows barely works - I have to drag them with the mouse, and the size doesn’t update until I release, and even then, it only partially resizes. Some software seems generally laggy as well, almost as if there’s no hardware acceleration.

Visual issue when opening software: When opening certain apps, there will be a large outer black frame (200px+) on the left and top sides for 1-2 seconds before eventually fully loading and appearing as they should.

Brave browser shortcuts: Every time Brave is opened, I get hit with several popups asking me to set keyboard shortcuts for extensions. No matter what I select, they come back after closing the browser. I’ve updated to the latest version of Brave that was pushed today. (03/26/25)

Fractional scaling: I’ve also noticed a regression where some software’s text is blurry again, even with frame buffer enabled.

For example - Black Box terminal from Flathub is blurry, but from the AUR it is not.

Note: None of these issues happen on Fedora 41 running the latest Gnome 47 release.

Is anyone else experiencing any of these problems?

I’m relatively new to Arch based distros, but I don’t believe any of these are related to missing anything after installing, as they weren’t an issue with Arch running Gnome 47 a couple months ago.

Thanks!

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For this one see:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/404298968

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I’m using Fedora 42 prerelease.

The only thing that is problematic here is Brave, which shows me this window 3x:
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I don’t know how to solve this, does anyone know?

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There is no PNG attachment.

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Some screenshots for the 3 visual issues could help.

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The workaround for the Chromium bug is to add the line --disable-features=GlobalShortcutsPortal to your ~/.config/brave-flags.conf file.

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This issue sound similar to what you describe:

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I can’t send screenshots. There seems to be a problem.

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Can you provide more details?

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i am facing a issue that brightness slider from quick toggle does not apear

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Yep, very similar! I would even be somewhat confident in saying this is the culprit. Not certain, but the first video looks almost identical to the issue I’m having.

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Hey all,

I’ve recorded and uploaded a video of exactly what’s happening with the window resizing issue, and the visual glitch when opening. After a bit of testing, I’ve narrowed the problem down to the ‘xwayland-native-scaling.’ This issue does not appear when only ‘scale-monitor-framebuffer’ is enabled.

It also only happens with x11 apps.

Link to video: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

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same problems with a Ryzen 8845HS (radeon 780M iGPU). Black frame around Godot launching for example, but had it with other apps too.
some full sized(super + up key) applications sometimes have trouble scrolling through the content, but as soon as I make it smaller the content scrolls smooth again.

Also latest mesa on 6.13.8-arch1-1 introduced artefacting for me, downgrading to 24.3.4 fixed that at least. But still enough ways to crash my laptop, e.g. watch Youtube on Brave and skip back and forth in a video a bunch of times until laptop starts to hang and never fixes itself.

still unsure if it’s a kernel issue or Gnome issue.