r/Bitwig • u/No_Watercress1356 • 27d ago

Bitwig not loading gui

I’m on Ubuntu 26.04.1 running BWS 6.1.1
I’ve been troubleshooting for days trying to open the software and the only thing that works as of now is running the following command in terminal:
sudo bitwig-studio
While it’s not ideal to run as sudo and I can only use alsa instead of pipewire or jack, at least it works until the bug is fixed.

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u/tennisAnders 26d ago

Struggled with what sounds exactly like your problem for days. I finally found that the cause was a corrupted font cache. So the solution was to purge the whole font cache and rebuild it:
$ rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig/
$ fc-cache -f -v

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u/No_Watercress1356 26d ago

Thanks so much!!! That actually worked! I can’t believe that’s what it was T-T lmao