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Ask the Linux WebView for the one mode it can draw in this window
The terminal renders nothing on Linux, and does it in the most misleading way available: the
page loads, the scripts run, the renderer connects, InvokeScript answers. Everything works
except the pixels, so it reads as a broken terminal rather than as a host with nowhere to
paint.

Measured on Fedora 44 with Avalonia.Controls.WebView 12.0.1, by a spike that hosts a
NativeWebView and reads AdapterInfo. The backend is WebKitGTK 2.52.5 — not the WPE one this
repository's platform notes predicted, and Fedora packages no WPE WebKit at all, so that path
was never going to be the answer here. In its default mode the adapter reports
SupportedScenarios = NativeDialog: a window of its own, and nothing that can be hosted in
place. Identical under X11 and Wayland, so it is the adapter's answer rather than a session
problem.

Setting ExperimentalOffscreen on the GTK environment arguments changes the same adapter's
answer to OffscreenRenderer — the compositor-drawn mode, which is what the
NativeWebViewCompositorHost mentioned in those same notes exists to host. MainWindow now sets
it as the environment is settled. Windows and macOS are untouched by construction rather than
by an OS check: the argument is a GTK type there and the handler does nothing.

The platform notes carried this as "unproven, and still the largest risk in the plan". They
carry the measurement now, including the part that is still unproven and the reason the spike
could not settle it.

What is NOT verified is that it now paints. An XWayland root capture is black under a Wayland
compositor and RenderTargetBitmap does not capture a compositor surface, so both ways of
looking at it from here failed. It needs eyes on a running client, and if the terminal is
still blank the next question is whether it takes input at all — that separates "not drawing"
from "not hosted".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 22:35:19 +02:00
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