Chromium/Chrome window is black in Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 [closed]
I have installed Chromium and Google Chrome, but the entire Chromium/Chrome window is black in Ubuntu 16.04/18.04. Does somebody know why?
Chromium installed with: sudo apt install chromium-browser
Google Chrome installed by downloading from https://www.google.com/chrome/ and double clicking the .deb
file.
Screenshot:
Running Chrome with --use-gl=angle
does the trick for me and I don't have to turn off the 3D acceleration. The command looks like this:
google-chrome --use-gl=angle
However for the normal usage I've modified every exec
line in /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
and added the mentioned param, so it looks like this (notice there are three occurences of exec):
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U --use-gl=angle
Works in Ubuntu 16.10, VirtualBox 5.1.12
If you didn't solve it by now, the problem is with WebGL2, for more informations, read this:
Issue 602679
And like is said in the link, the fix for the black screen is running chrome with --use-gl=angle
It worked for me, hope it helps.
Best regards, Eugen.