Crash when adding Fill mask.

[Cheddar-Fox]

As one would be expected to do, I go to add a new fill mask, and unfortunately it crashes. This does not happen when I convert a layer to a fill mask.

I am using a 1050 TI with the 580 driver
Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit
6.17.0-22-generic Kernal
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor × 6 CPU
Linux Vulkan Render
ArmorPaint.org - v1.0 alpha 2026/04/11 8f273f7

[luboslenco]

Hi, thanks for report. Can you give steps to reproduce? Do you simply start the program, press the New - Fill Mask button and get a crash every time?

[Cheddar-Fox]

Yep.

Quite literally that's all, so not much to explain.

[luboslenco]

Can not reproduce this so far. :( Will do some more testing.

[Cheddar-Fox]

I recently discovered how easy it is to install a new desktop environment over my operating system. So I decided to give KDE plasma Wayland a try as Wayland functions quite differenly from X11. The program runing through XWayland a x11 translation layer for Wayland, does not have this specific issue.

Wayland is the new video and audio management layer that bundles together a lot of old functions of x11 together to have smoother less bloated integration. Not all programs are compatible yet though, hence XWayland.

I havent tried most of the other crashes yet but the blender one #2052 still happens on this desktop environment.

I've also had other random crashes still. However I've also noticed the program runs at about double the framerate on my laptop (framework 13 raptor lake i7) when using XWayland making the program now usable on my laptop too.

The performance increase is not as noticeable on my old desktop. Most likely due to the graphics card being older and not having driver optimization for Wayland like the laptop does, the laptop being so much newer.

Overall using armor paint through XWayland along with this more polished desktop by KDE instead of the default Cinimon environment on Mint has made the program much more stable.

I have not tried the X11 version of the plasma KDE desktop yet with armor paint, but I do have that installed too so I might try that some point to see how it differs.

[Cheddar-Fox]

Hold up. i made a mistake, I was clicking fill layer instead of fill mask. Crash still happens on both.

[luboslenco]

Will test it out on more desktop environments. 👍 For the fill mask, still no luck but hopefully it pops out for more users and I will get more clues and fix it.