Solution to blank screen after installing Vivado under Linux

Solution ^{1 2}

If the following conditions are met and a white screen appears after opening Vivado

• Make sure Vivado is installed correctly
• Using a non-reparenting(or partially tiled ) window manager, such as dwm, bspwmetc.

Then, just set the environment variables:

export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

It is recommended to automatically set environment variables every time you start the computer.

Reason ³

Vivado is built on the Java Swing GUI, and applications built on Java Swing often behave erratically under non-reparentingManager ^{4 .}

So a mechanism is needed to tell the JDK that the current window manager is non-reparenting, so the above environment variables are added to do this.

Reference link

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1. Install, configure and develop XilinxVivado on Linux, https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv11476758 ↩︎

2. Xilinx Living - ArchWiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xilix_Living ↩︎

3. Set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING when starting，https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/126 ↩︎

4. [Translation] Analysis of the principles of X window manager (1), https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/349232688 ↩︎