element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Element Desktop doesn't open on Ubuntu 24.04 with Wayland

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A-Electron O-Uncommon S-Critical T-Defect Z-Platform-Specific
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

Install Element Desktop following the instructions from the website on a clean Ubuntu 24.04 system (with default Wayland window manager)

### Outcome
Element will not open, no electron window is displayed

#### What did you expect?
Element Desktop to work after being installed via Ubuntu instructions on element.io

#### What happened instead?
Launching element results in nothing happening, running it from the command line results in:
```
[23918:0925/163545.936714:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[23918:0925/163545.936756:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
```

See also https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/41082

### Operating system

Ubuntu Linux 24.04

### Application version

Element Desktop 1.11.78

### How did you install the app?

Instructions from website (add apt sources) apt install element-desktop

### Homeserver

NA

### Will you send logs?

Yes

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