Menu goes black

ParaView Support
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For Paraview 5.11-5.13 on ubuntu, hardware and software info is below.
When I move the mouse, menu area goes black. Menu still works but I do not see it.

Hardware Information:
Hardware Model: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. US Desktop Infinite RS
Memory: 64.0 GiB
Processor: Intel® Core™ i9-14900KF × 32
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 4090

Software Information:
Firmware Version: A.A2
OS Name: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
OS Type: 64-bit
GNOME Version: 46
Windowing System: Wayland
Kernel Version: Linux 6.8.0-38-generic

Paraview Black Menu

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Please share a screenshot of the problem

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ParaviewScreenBlackMenu
ParaviewScreenBlackMenu3766×2111 45 KB

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Please check your OpenGL information as described here:

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Client Information:
Version: 5.13.1
VTK Version: 9.3.20240617
Qt Version: 5.15.10
vtkIdType size: 64bits
Embedded Python: On
Python Library Path: /home/akoshele/ParaView-5.13.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.10-x86_64/lib/python3.10
Python Library Version: 3.10.13 (main, Sep 27 2024, 19:33:16) [GCC 10.2.1 20210130 (Red Hat 10.2.1-11)]
Python Numpy Support: On
Python Numpy Path: /home/akoshele/ParaView-5.13.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.10-x86_64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy
Python Numpy Version: 1.25.2
Python Matplotlib Support: On
Python Matplotlib Path: /home/akoshele/ParaView-5.13.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.10-x86_64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/matplotlib
Python Matplotlib Version: 3.7.2
Python Testing: Off
MPI Enabled: On
ParaView Build ID: superbuild abdf9aa5f109ffa3558a63d86365a0203aaab773 (!1224)
Disable Registry: Off
Test Directory:
Data Directory:
SMP Backend: TBB
SMP Max Number of Threads: 32
OpenGL Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL Version: 3.2.0 NVIDIA 550.100
OpenGL Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090/PCIe/SSE2
Accelerated filters overrides available: No

Connection Information:
Remote Connection: No

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This log looks correct, any errors in the terminal if you run ParaVIew from there ?

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Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
VisRTX 0.1.6, using devices:
0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (Total: 25.4 GB, Available: 22.1 GB)
Gtk-Message: 10:43:31.524: Not loading module “atk-bridge”: The functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it.

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Can you try with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland ?

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Is this command line option?

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./paraview QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
VisRTX 0.1.6, using devices:
0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (Total: 25.4 GB, Available: 22.1 GB)
critical: In unknown, line 0
critical: Cannot open data file " “QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland” "

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QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland ./bin/paraview

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QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland ./paraview
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
VisRTX 0.1.6, using devices:
0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (Total: 25.4 GB, Available: 22.0 GB)

The same black menu behavior

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I’m afraid I have no other leads.

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Can it be Nvidia driver issue?

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Proably a nvidia + Qt issue. You may want to try running without nvidia driver.

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How do I do this?

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You need to use Xephyr for that:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1830697#p1830697

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This issue was resolved after

sudo apt install dkms; sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall