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Open/Save File browser panels blank on XFCE Linux

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#1,243 opened on Sep 15, 2025

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Description

Most appropriate sub-area of Processing 4?

PDE

Processing version

4.4.7

Operating system

Manjaro XFCE Linux

Bug description

When you do a file operation like Open or Save, the window of the "OS File browser" is blank.

Steps to reproduce this

  1. Install Processing using sudo snap install processing --classic as recommended at Processing.org

  2. Launch the PDE

  3. Try on the File menu > Open... (or Save...)

Additional context

This was working on Processing 4.3.3 on the same machine. I saw it on 4.4.6 and tried to uninstall and upgrade to 4.4.7 but it is still the same.

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No, I’m just reporting the issue

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