All the examples have window problems

[ghost]

Window content is not resized when resizing the window, and the border is drawn wrong.
I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 with Mesa drivers.

I believe the issue is with Glutin. I'm having the same problem with Piston, which goes away if I use SDL2.

[Xaeroxe]

I will certainly attempt to reproduce this. I've been a pretty regular Linux Mint user myself and haven't observed this. That's some strange behavior.

[ghost]

Thanks for the tip about Mint. The best I can do with Ubuntu 17.10 is use Piston/SDL. It seems like the current consensus is that Glutin is the best hope for the future? I'm new to Rust, out of curiosity, is there much interest in SDL?

[Xaeroxe]

@ddewert

Is there much interest in SDL?

Depends on who you ask. I think the general consensus right now is that SDL2 is much more powerful and reliable, but also flawed and imperfect in many ways that we can't correct in C/C++.

[Binero]

This is a Wayland issue, also exists in GFX. gfx-rs/gfx#1217

[gotocoffee1]

std::env::set_var("WINIT_UNIX_BACKEND", "x11"); fixes it for me, I also had to set multisampling to 0

[Xaeroxe]

I'm closing this since there isn't really anything in this code base responsible for this.

[ghost]

This was helpful:
rust-windowing/winit#306

[ghost]

So for those completely new to amethyst and Rust (as I am) who are also enjoying Ubuntu 17.10:
To make the sphere example work, for instance:

Change the line in examples/sphere/main.rs that says:

fn run() -> Result<(), amethyst::Error> {

to:

fn run() -> Result<(), amethyst::Error> {
    std::env::set_var("WINIT_UNIX_BACKEND", "x11");

Find the line in examples/sphere/resources/display_config.ron that says multisampling: 1 and change that to multisampling: 0

This works for me.

[Rhuagh]

Why not just do WINIT_UNIX_BACKEND=x11 cargo run..

[ghost]

Ha!