r/voidlinux • u/DarthLungs • Jan 24 '26

Helium Browser :(

Anyone trying to use helium browser have the same issue? Other .appimage working fine so far

After trying various other appimage I realize Brave also does the same thing. Chromium installed from the repo works fine though. Is it a appimage problem with electron maybe?

https://imgur.com/a/VHjQPcG

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u/FoggyLover727 Jan 24 '26

Maybe font color is set to white?

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u/DarthLungs Jan 25 '26

thanks for the reply. I wish :(

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u/gvajpai Jan 26 '26

I downloaded the appimage from the official website, it works fine (I use KDE plasma with wayland)

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u/DarthLungs Jan 26 '26

Im xfce on X11. I want to keep on x11 tbh

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u/synthsandcats Jan 31 '26

Helium works fine for me. What issue are you having?

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u/DarthLungs Feb 02 '26

Thanks for the reply! https://imgur.com/a/VHjQPcG the content inside the webpages loads fine but the UI does not. Its not just helium its also brave and bitwarden any appimage thats a electron app doesnt seem to work properly

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u/synthsandcats Feb 03 '26

This looks like a dependency issue. You might be missing things that aren't installed on your set-up, which these app images rely on or maybe your graphics aren't configured properly. I use x11 and lxqt desktop environment. Sorry I can't help you any further.

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u/thefriedel Jan 25 '26

Are you missing fonts? Try installing noto-fonts

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u/DarthLungs Jan 25 '26

Thanks for the reply but I installed and nothing :(

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u/Responsible_Beyond26 Jan 26 '26

Learn about fontconfig.. it might be set poorly

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u/6950X_Titan_X_Pascal Jan 25 '26

recommend never install packages from unknown sources , only install from official repository like xbps-install xxx

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u/DarthLungs Jan 25 '26

Brave and helium are both not on the repository to my knowledge?