Only using XWayland on Flatpak?

[marcelohdez]

Describe the bug

Using the Heroic Games Launcher (com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl) flatpak, the launcher only runs under XWayland, which is very noticeable on my laptop which uses 1.5x scaling on Sway making HGL blurry. I have tried disabling the X11 socket, keeping only the Wayland one enabled but it fails with the following output:

[13:0413/230557.633016:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[13:0413/230558.451603:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(244)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[13:0413/230558.451625:ERROR:env.cc(257)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.
/app/bin/heroic-run: line 6:    13 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) zypak-wrapper /app/bin/heroic/heroic "$@"

For the log when HGL is run with default permissions (and therefore on XWayland) see logs attached.

Add logs

(22:58:08) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Legendary location: /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/legendary
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Gog]:              GOGDL location: /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/gogdl
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Connection]:       Connectivity: check-online
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Connection]:       Pinging external endpoints
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Gog]:              Checking for existing gog manifests
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Backend]:          DRM module staus {
  "oimompecagnajdejgnnjijobebaeigek": {
    "status": "new",
    "title": "Widevine Content Decryption Module",
    "version": "4.10.2710.0"
  }
}
(22:58:08) WARNING: [Backend]:          Failed to register protocol with OS.
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Running command: LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/legendaryConfig/legendary /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/legendary --version
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Gog]:              Running command: GOGDL_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gogdlConfig /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/gogdl --auth-config-path /home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gog_store/auth.json --version
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Nile]:             Running command: NILE_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/nile_config /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/nile --version
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Connection]:       Connectivity: online
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Gog]:              Running command: GOGDL_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gogdlConfig /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/gogdl --auth-config-path /home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gog_store/auth.json auth
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Backend]:          User Not Found, removing it from Store
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Gog]:              Checking if login is valid
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Gog]:              Running command: GOGDL_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gogdlConfig /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/gogdl --auth-config-path /home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gog_store/auth.json auth
(22:58:08) INFO:    [Backend]:          AreWeAntiCheatYet data downloaded
(22:58:09) INFO:    [Frontend]:         Refreshing undefined Library
(22:58:09) WARNING: [Backend]:          refresh not implemented on Sideload Library Manager
(22:58:09) INFO:    [Legendary]:        Refreshing library...
(22:58:09) INFO:    [Gog]:              Running command: GOGDL_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gogdlConfig /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/gogdl --auth-config-path /home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gog_store/auth.json auth
(22:58:09) INFO:    [Backend]:          Frontend Ready
(22:58:09) INFO:    [Gog]:              Getting GOG library
(22:58:09) INFO:    [Gog]:              Running command: GOGDL_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gogdlConfig /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/gogdl --auth-config-path /home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gog_store/auth.json auth
(22:58:09) INFO:    [Backend]:          
System Information:
CPU: 16x AMD Ryzen 7 7840U w/ Radeon  780M Graphics
Memory: 29.22 GB (used: 4.66 GB)
GPUs:
  GPU 0:
    Name: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Phoenix1
    IDs: D=15bf V=1002 SD=0006 SV=f111
    Driver: amdgpu
OS: Fedora Linux 40 (Forty) (linux)

The current system is not a Steam Deck
We are running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:
  Heroic: 2.14.1 Flame Emperor Sabo
  Legendary: 0.20.34 Direct Intervention
  gogdl: 1.0.1
  Nile: 1.0.2 Jonathan Joestar

(22:58:09) INFO:    [Backend]:          Checking for current version changelog
(22:58:09) INFO:    [Gog]:              Saved username to config file
(22:58:10) INFO:    [Gog]:              Saved games data
(22:58:10) WARNING: [Backend]:          listUpdateableGames not implemented on Sideload Library Manager
(22:58:10) INFO:    [Gog]:              Running command: GOGDL_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gogdlConfig /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/gogdl --auth-config-path /home/mhdez/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gog_store/auth.json auth
(22:58:10) INFO:    [Gog]:              Found 0 game(s) to update
(22:58:10) DEBUG:   [Backend]:          Unable to load Steam Libraries, libraryfolders.vdf not found
(22:58:10) INFO:    [Winetricks]:       Downloading Winetricks
(22:58:13) INFO:    [WineDownloader]:   Updating wine versions info
(22:58:13) INFO:    [WineDownloader]:   Fetching upstream information...
(22:58:14) INFO:    [Backend]:          Starting the Download Queue
(22:58:15) INFO:    [WineDownloader]:   wine versions updated

Steps to reproduce

1. Open HGL
2. Get window stats, e.g. for Sway: swaymsg -t get_tree | jq '.. | select(.type?) | select(.focused)'
3. See that it is running on XWayland.
4. Attempt to remove X11 socket from permissions in Flatseal
5. Heroic fails to open

Expected behavior

For HGL to support running under Wayland, as noted in #1963 (comment)

Screenshots

No response

Heroic Version

Latest Stable (Flatpak)

System Information

• OS [e. g. "Ubuntu"]: Fedora 40 Beta
• WM: Sway 1.9

Additional information

No response

[Tallis-Larsen]

same problem but on arch with hyprland

[Anseryde]

Same problem on Fedora KDE Wayland.

[Twig6943]

Same issue here! (With the flatpak package)

[Etaash-mathamsetty]

just pass in --ozone-platform-hint=auto

[Twig6943]

just pass in --ozone-platform-hint=auto

(Works with the AppImage package) (The icon is missing but yeah pretty minor issue)
(Going to test with the flatpak package soon)

[Twig6943]

Same issue here! (With the flatpak package)

flatpak run com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl --ozone-platform-hint=auto

The flatpak package seems to use wayland too with said flag (even has the icon unlike the AppImage)

[Etaash-mathamsetty]

just pass in --ozone-platform-hint=auto

(Works with the AppImage package) (The icon is missing but yeah pretty minor issue) (Going to test with the flatpak package soon)

this will be fixed in the future with the xdg_toplevel_icon protocol, anyway closing as this is not an issue

[Twig6943]

@Etaash-mathamsetty "xdg_toplevel_icon" seems to be merged tho https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/269

[Twig6943]

@Etaash-mathamsetty could you re-open this issue? This issue is still present (I don't really care about the icon I want the app to auto use the wayland backend without the need of flags)

[Twig6943]

I'll create a separate issue in case your notifications are turned off