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🎮 Unity, Linux, and the Mysterious Selection Menu Crash

🎮 Unity, Linux, and the Mysterious Selection Menu Crash TLDR;  Running unity on i3wm + Nvidia. Selection menu crashes unity.  Entering Full screen fixes the issue.  Github fix: https://github.com/tesq0/i3-unity-fix I’ve been hopping distros lately, experimenting with different window managers and environments, and ran into a strange (and surprisingly stubborn) issue with Unity Hub and the Unity Editor. If you’re developing on Linux and scratching your head over Unity randomly crashing when opening selection menus—this one’s for you. 🐧 The Setup Let’s rewind. I first installed Arch Linux with Hyprland (a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor). I grabbed unityhub from the AUR, launched it, and everything seemed to work fine—at least at first. But then came the crash . 💥 The Problem Every time I opened any kind of selection menu inside Unity (see Figure 1), the editor would freeze and crash within seconds. The menu itself didn’t render correctly—it was either comple...