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Gdk-Message: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display #125

Description

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What happens

Wayland: Gdk-Message: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display

Description

When launching zuno from a terminal under a Wayland session, the application reports a Wayland protocol error during startup.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start a KDE Plasma Wayland session.
  2. Open a terminal.
  3. Activate the relevant environment.
  4. Run:
zuno

Output

zuno

(zuno:110514): libayatana-appindicator-WARNING **: 13:40:43.681: libayatana-appindicator is deprecated. Please use libayatana-appindicator-glib in newly written code.
[internal][frontend][info] main.bootstrap start { "timestamp": "2026-08-30T18:40:44.448Z", "sessionId": "mtg5nct5-992zc8", "sequence": 1, "context": "main.bootstrap start" }
[internal][frontend][info] [Discord RPC] Initializing Discord RPC service { "timestamp": "2026-08-30T18:40:44.454Z", "sessionId": "mtg5nct5-992zc8", "sequence": 2, "context": "[Discord RPC] Initializing Discord RPC service" }
[internal][frontend][debug] Discord.init { "timestamp": "2026-08-30T18:40:44.454Z", "sessionId": "mtg5nct5-992zc8", "sequence": 3, "context": "Discord.init", "message": "Rust backend will handle connection" }
Gdk-Message: 13:40:44.473: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.

Expected behavior

zuno should start normally without producing a Wayland protocol error.

Actual behavior

The application reports:

Gdk-Message: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.

This occurs during the application's startup sequence, shortly after the frontend bootstrap begins.

Environment

  • OS: Linux
  • Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma
  • Display server: Wayland
  • Application: zuno
  • NVIDIA driver: latest available for the system
  • Distribution: CachyOS (rolling release)

Additional information

There is also a deprecation warning from libayatana-appindicator:

libayatana-appindicator is deprecated.
Please use libayatana-appindicator-glib in newly written code.

I am not sure whether this warning is related to the Wayland protocol error, but it appears immediately before the application startup logs.

The main issue I would like investigated is the Gdk-Message: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display error.

Zuno version

1.4.0

OS

Linux

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