Electron Apps not working

I cannot seem to get any Electron apps working. This includes Spotify and Slack. I uninstalled and reinstalled these two apps multiple times, tried installing them from Snaps and .deb files but to no avail. I tried launching them from the command line in verbose mode and there was nothing in the logs to indicate that something was broken. I was about to embark on a complete reinstall but I figured I would check here and see if anyone had a similar experience if (luckily!) there was a fix of some sort so that I didn't have to go through the hassle of a complete reinstall.

TIA!

Can you clarify what you mean by "not working?" Are they not launching? Are they launching and everything seems normal, but not connecting?
Are they freezing?

I found this report:

@Aravisian Thank you for replying!

They seem to launch but there is no app window visible. I see the app on the task bar and I see a border expanding and minimizing but I don't actually see the window itself.

I will take a look at the github issue. Thank you for pointing it out to me.

Tried launching the apps with --disable-gpu and that didn't seem to help. But it seems like this might be tied to the GPU driver. I might try downgrading my GPU drivers and see if that helps any.

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Thank you!

I have a 3080Ti - Downgrading to a previous stable version of the nvidia custom drivers did not help and neither did the nouveau drivers. But it does seem like its GPU drivers related.

I have an old GT710 lying around somewhere. I will try swapping out the card temporarily to see if that works - I am not hopeful to be honest and mostly grasping at straws here - the card would use the same drivers as the 3080Ti.

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