Weird video/screen artefacts using Brave on Fedora 43WS

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I installed F43WS on my friend’s old Apple Imac. Its brought it a new lease of life, as I knew it would. He’s super stoked! However, after installing Brave the way I always do:

sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core

sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo

sudo dnf install brave-browser

There are some very weird glitches on the browser once it’s open. Hard to explain, I’ll get a short video clip later to post. Everything else so far works just fine, only Brave browser. I am no dev, but wondering if it’s to do with this switch from Wayland to X11, or vice versa (I forget!).

Any ideas appreciated, but I’ll post some actual footage of it later.

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Do you know what GPU does it have and what driver is in use? You can check with:

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'

Is the issue reproducible with the flatpak version of Brave from Flathub as well?

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Excellent questions I’m sure! Thank you.

I’ll check and come back to you

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signal-2026-03-11-152632
signal-2026-03-11-1526324096×3076 566 KB

Is that any use?!

Thanks

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Text is fine - Can’t search or index a picture (or cut the details from it for a search query)

Shows you’re using the radeon driver - I suspect you’d get better results with the amdgpu driver, but saying that I’m not sure if the amdgpu driver supports a graphics chipset that old.

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my advice install XFCE Desktop Environment because still use x11 wayland could be buggy with radeon amdgpu specially if is old and please use proper version of fedora F32 is way end of life or to check install x11 for gnome(workstation) to check how is going with x11
This are steps if you use F43
sudo dnf copr enable frantisekz/GNOME-X11
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-xinit gnome-session-xsession gnome-classic-session-xsession
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-drv-libinput (just to check)
Restart/Logout
Select Session: On the GDM login screen, click the gear icon in the bottom-right corner and select **"GNOME on Xorg

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Probably a typo from the OP. Correct version is in the title.

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How old is the iMac? If this is the only complaint, I wouldn’t consider changing the desktop environment yet.

There are resources here on the forums that describe how to switch to the other driver, but if Brave is the only app having issues, your friend might consider sticking with the default Firefox (or Brave as Flatpak, in case it doesn’t behave similarly).

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Thanks, sorry this was taken over a RustDesk session! I can try to talk him through copy pasting the info

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Tis no worries - just makes it easier if it’s straight text.

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Sorry sorry, I did make a typo in first post (F32WS). Yes this is running F43WS. I stupidly built him a F43 installer, should have stuck with F42!

But I am 400 miles away from him so can’t undo that right now :frowning:

So, first things first I will try Brave as a Flatpak. There are issues with that (accessing printer, saving files etc. I seem to recall doing that myself first time and then being advised on here to install non Flatpak version and since then I use Brave extensively and works perfectly.

I’ll try brave Flatpak on his machine and see if the glitches go away. In the mean time any other suggestions would be great. thanks

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Ok. I installed Brave Flathub, no change. Visual artefacts all over the place.

So I did the following as suggested by Igor:

After this, it looked better (I am connected to machine on RustDesk) so I thought it was solved. But then a weird thing happened, my friend’s machine (in front of him) went black screen, but I could stil use his machine! Then it powered itself off. :frowning:

Any ideas?
Thanks

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PS, do I need to select Gnome on Xorg EVERY time logging in? Or does it remember last option used?

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Should remember last session you use

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