Tried playing the game after about a 6-month pause.
2. What happened?
The game won't launch correctly either when launched through Steam or by executing the standalone binary downloaded from Factorio's website.
When running in X11 compat mode (XWayland, GNOME 50), it will display a black window with a gray bar on top (where GNOME's HUD would be) and hang until terminated. With the Wayland backend, the window won't even show up and the game's process will keep running until manually killed.
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3. What did you expect to happen instead?
For the game to launch successfully as it once did on the same system.
4. Does it always happen, once, or sometimes?
Always.
The issues began with Fedora 43: the Steam version wouldn't launch, but the standalone version did. However, after upgrading to Fedora 44, neither does anymore.
