Bug 250915

Summary:	[GTK] WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE no longer recognized as system-wide environment variable
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Casey C <fienixppc>
Component:	WebKitGTK	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	Normal	CC:	bugs-noreply, Hironori.Fujii, mcatanzaro, simon.fraser
Priority:	P2
Version:	Other
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux

Description Casey C 2023-01-20 13:24:19 PST

This report is regarding libwebkit2gtk-4.1 (2.38.3) via Eolie browser on Linux. Starting with the 4.1 API, WebKit no longer recognizes "WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE" as a system-wide environment variable, such as in an environment.d conf file. libwebkit2gtk-4.0 picks up on the system-wide environment variable and disables compositing, so this appears to be a change between the 4.0 and 4.1 API. Please have WebKit recognize this system-wide environment variable. Compositing on PowerPC Linux systems results in severely incorrect color rendering.

Comment 1 Michael Catanzaro 2023-01-21 13:25:52 PST

This environment variable is still respected. The only difference between -4.0 and -4.1 is networking, not graphics.