[Bug] pake-youtube crashes the moment you play a video(Wayland Edition)!

[Yaman-Harfoush]

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• I searched in the issues and found nothing similar.

Pake version

3.17.1

Rust version

1.89.0

Package Manager

pnpm

System version

Arch Linux

Node.js version

26.8.2

Build Command

pake https://www.youtube.com --name youtube --targets zst

Minimal reproduce step

Use the above command on latest version of GNOME Wayland. Install with sudo pacman -U ...
And try to open a video!

What did you expect to see?

The exact same experience on X11 or on windows

What did you see instead?

Crash

Anything else?

Thank you!

Are you willing to submit a PR?

• I'm willing to submit a PR!

[tw93]

@Yaman-Harfoush Thanks for the separate Wayland report. The 3.17.1 rendering change applies to X11, so it does not yet resolve this GNOME crash.

From a terminal inside the GNOME session, try PAKE_LINUX_WEBKIT_SAFE_MODE=0 pake-youtube with the same rebuilt app and video, then tell me whether playback and fullscreen controls work. Also share the output of pacman -Q webkit2gtk-4.1 gstreamer gst-libav mesa and only the crash error from the terminal, with any private information removed; please do not upload a core dump. I’ll keep this open while checking the Wayland path.

[Yaman-Harfoush]

@tw93 The app froze on my Linux system, but works fine on Windows. I deleted the webkit cache folder at ~/.config/youtube/WebKitCache/ and it works now.

PAKE_LINUX_WEBKIT_SAFE_MODE=0 pake-youtubeworks fine with all controls in full screen.
The outout of pacman -Q webkit2gtk-4.1 gstreamer gst-libav mesa is:
webkit2gtk-4.1 2.52.6-1
gstreamer 1.28.7-1
gst-libav 1.28.7-1
mesa 1:26.2.2-1

Finally, only there is the libayatana-appindicator-WARNING and this new line:
(pake-youtube:12331): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:13:26.539: gtk_widget_get_scale_factor: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed