Xojo 2022 3.2 not launching on Fedora 37

I tried to use Xojo 2022 3.2 on a fresh install of Fedora 37 (Gnome).
I’ve done the

sudo -s yum -y install gtk3 gtk3-devel libunwind
cd /opt
mkdir xojo
cd xojo
sudo tar -zxvf ~/Downloads/xojo2018r4.tgz

stuff and launched it. But it freezes. No messages in Terminal.

It always hangs while loading the preferences:

How can i find out what’s going wrong, please?

Looks like the switch from X11 to Wayland killed Xojo on Gnome Fedora…

Hmmm… but switching to X11 does not change anything :man_shrugging:

I have the same issue on Ubuntu 22.04 and 22.10 using wayland or switching back to X11.
There’s a related thread here to do with a conflict with evolution:

Always hangs on reading preferences.

They should simply switch to Flatpack:wink:

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BTW: I already removed the Oracle and Postgres Plugins, because i do not need them.

The same issue persists with Xojo 2022r4.1
I suspect it might be related to Fedora adopting GTK 4.
I noticed this package webkitgtk3 is not available but this one is webkitgtk4 but not for 32-bit.
I second the emotion to make Xojo available as a Flatpak

Same issue in Ubuntu 22.10 Cinnamon Remix installed from .deb package which rules out that this is because of GTK 4
Strangely however the issue does not occur in Debian sid (unstable) with Cinnamon DE and latest Xojo installed from .deb package
Do not use Debian sid as your daily Driver, I used it here just for testing.
I guess I will have to use Mint in the meantime based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS while Xojo resolves this.

We have provided a temporary solution for this issue, but this problem will affect any apps that use the HTMLViewer.
https://tracker.xojo.com/xojoinc/xojo/-/issues/71920

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You do realize that this is an incredibly stupid thing to do? You will break any application that depends on that library.