VLC on GNOME (wayland) – Title bar filled with unintelligible characters

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I’m running both GNOME and KDE Plasma in wayland as I don’t use XORG. I have a Debian stable 12.5 base on which I installed GNOME using tasksel running in a VirtualBox VM. After installing VLC I noticed the VLC task bar which should display the name of the currently playing content displays unintelligible characters shown here:

I tried installing and running VLC in a Debian stable 12.5 base on which I installed kde-plasma-desktop and the video title was displayed properly. After rebooting and attempting to run VLC again, the system became unresponsive. Again, this was in a VirtualBox VM. 4GB RAM/20GB Disk/2 Cores. Other tested software excluding Symantic has worked fine.

I’m curious if there is a work-around for this or if this is a known issue. Thanks.

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While looking into a garbled text issue for Firefox, I changed a VirtualBox VM setting, “Enable 3D Acceleration.” Disabling 3D acceleration took care of not only the Firefox problems but also similar garbled character issues I have seen in other apps, including VLC. VLC is now running on my Debian 12.5 GNOME wayland VirtualBox VM.

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