Since today my Wire desktop app only shows a white screen.
It starts with the usual loading screen and fetching messages but then shows a blank page only.
Messages get delivered - I get the respective notifications - so it is not an issue with the connection but with displaying.
Menu dropdowns appear but if I select e.g. Preferences
, nothing shows up.
I am on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the issue appears on both tested systems.
It also appears on both the snap-version and installation via deb-package.
I tried restarting, reinstalling, resizing the window and changing Ubuntu themes, with no effect.
Starting wire from the terminal shows an error and warnings:
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: cannot find desktop file "/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/wire_Wire.desktop"
(wire-desktop:11969): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:24:37.624: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:1413:23: 'font-feature-settings' is not a valid property name
(wire-desktop:11969): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:24:37.627: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:3286:25: 'font-feature-settings' is not a valid property name
(wire-desktop:11969): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:24:37.628: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:3748:23: 'font-feature-settings' is not a valid property name
The file in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/
is named wire_wire.desktop
(no capital 'w'). I don't know where the wrong name is stored but I renamed the file to wire_Wire.desktop
, which solved the error but not the white screen.
Uninstalling gtk_common_themes
resolved the warnings but the white screen still persists.
I'm happy for any ideas!