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works with portable, media percentage is non-zero (dependent on resolution) but only with X11/Xwayland. running it with wayland switches works but nets a 0% in media.
doesn't work at all with Appimage; won't start with wayland switches. without them starts but media at 0%.
works with flatpak, media is non-zero, under Xwayland. ~~for some reason now won't start under wayland at all, possibly something I fucked up experimenting.~~ works under wayland but zero media use.
I don't know why, but the shortcut in the "Start" menu of KDE does not longer start FreeTube... Its Command-line arguments is
'run --branch=stable' --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/run.sh --file-forwarding io.freetubeapp.FreeTube @@u %u @@. I have uninstalled FreeTube, deleted the shortcut so it is created from scratch and still does not start. It only starts from either commandline with regular flatpak command, or when I create a new shortcut with the argumentsrun io.freetubeapp.FreeTube --enable features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUscheck if you have runaway processes:
ps aux | grep -i freetubethen kill them if they're there. also flatpak settings, here are mine:For whatever reason the arguments got additional quotation marks
'run --branch=stable'which messed up the command... deleting the quotation marks runs fine now. Weird... probably a bug from KDE when I tried to add the other options. Well thanks, now it runs with the original shortcut again. Thanks for the screenshot, helped me seeing the issue instantly.cool beans. can you confirm your flatpak settings, are they for X or wayland? if you run freetube and run
xlsclientsin terminal, does it return empty? and if freetube runs in wayland, does it say 0% in media when you playback?I don't know how to do a screenshot of the entire window that scrolls outside the view... i know skill issues. :D Well in Flatseal some relevant settings are X11 windowing system = ON, Wayland windowing system = OFF, Fallback to X11 windowing system = OFF. GPU acceleration = ON:
xlsclientsreturns "freetube"Unfortunately if I enable Wayland (just reverse ON / OFF X11 and Wayland setting in Flatseal), the Media activity is unused. Following settings and results are...
X11 windowing system = OFF, Wayland windowing system = ON, Fallback to X11 windowing system = OFF. GPU acceleration = ON:
xlsclientsreturns "" (empty)yeah, that jives with what I got here. wayland - no HW accel, xwayland - HW accel. so I guess that's it, for the time being...