Using GLFW with wayland

New to Julia
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I’ve been struggling with this for the past few days, hopefully this is the right place to put it. I have a simple piece of code using a library (Sunny) that depends on GLMakie. However, when I run this code, I just get no text or visual output. I’m currently on nixos using wayland with xwayland in accordance with my compositor (niri). I’m struggling because I can’t seem to pop up an interactive window in some code I am trying to use. The code is

using Sunny, GLMakie

units = Units(:meV, :angstrom);

a = 8.5031 # (Å)
latvecs = lattice_vectors(a, a, a, 90, 90, 90)
positions = [[0, 0, 0]]
cryst = Crystal(latvecs, positions, 227; types=["Co"], setting="1")

view_crystal(cryst)

I am getting absolutely no errors, the window just doesn’t pop up in my Xwayland window. I feel I am misunderstanding something crucial, but I can’t figure out what it is. Essentially, I want to know if anyone else has experience using nixos and wayland with GLFW in julia.

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Hi @rightleftspin, I’m not familiar with this problem. As a temporary workaround (for Sunny usage), maybe can you try using WGLMakie instead of GLMakie? In the past there were a lot of bugs in the WGLMakie backend, but Makie developers have been making great strides and they’re mostly addressed now.

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This worked perfectly for Sunny, thank you very much! I’ll leave it up as a problem for now, since I do want to figure out why wayland is having an issue with GLFW in the first place, since I’m pretty sure they should be compatible.