Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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No matter if I compile it myself or use someone else's build, on MacOS, I cannot get minetest to stop showing me a blank white window moments after I open the application.

Its very odd because I had minetest working for about a week, and one day it just didn't work at all. I've tried compiling it myself and used other people's builds, but I always get a white, blank window.

Any ideas as to what it could be?

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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I ran the actual binary inside the package contents of the .app, and I kept getting an error "CGContextGetBlendMode: invalid context 0x0" in the terminal. The white screen also appeared when I ran the executable.

I looked it up and for some reason this error happens during iPhone app development a lot? Is this some sort of error on Apple's part? Its definitely some sort of graphical error.

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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I would think this is because of the recent drop of Apple support, but I'm not sure
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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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ThomasMonroe wrote:I would think this is because of the recent drop of Apple support, but I'm not sure
Nothing has changed in regards to Minetest supporting Mac OS, Minetest has never really officially supported it as we don't have anyone with the skills to do so. See how we don't have an official Mac OS build. Note we'll ofc accept PRs to fix Mac OS support
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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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sorry I mis-worded it, idk then
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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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I don't usually use MacOS, because there is really no reason to, but its all I've got on my school mac, and I wanted to be able to use minetest from there.


I think maybe I screwed up some graphical settings or one of the services got blocked by my school, because it was working until about a week ago.

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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Hello! I have the same problem now. Did you manage to solve it?

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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Did you try removing minetest.conf? (While app closed, ofc)

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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rubenwardy wrote:
ThomasMonroe wrote:I would think this is because of the recent drop of Apple support, but I'm not sure
Nothing has changed in regards to Minetest supporting Mac OS, Minetest has never really officially supported it as we don't have anyone with the skills to do so. See how we don't have an official Mac OS build. Note we'll ofc accept PRs to fix Mac OS support
I don’t understand why. Neoascetic has been producing perfectly good builds for years now, and through Travis CI which means no Mac needed even.

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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texmex wrote:Did you try removing minetest.conf? (While app closed, ofc)
yes, it didn't help

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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What’s your system specs?

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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texmex wrote:What’s your system specs?
https://pasteboard.co/I0HwsEM.png
Here's a screenshot. Or do you need anything else?

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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Hmm, I’m on High Sierra too, works for me. Now I don’t know.

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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I have found an error but Idk if it is the reason why minetest crashes. So, when I open the terminal file 'minetest' from the MacOS folder, there appears this:
https://pasteboard.co/I0vrdhS.png
Does anybody know how to fix this?

UPD: sorry, I had just fixed it by downloading minetest with Homebrew. But the program still doesn't work
UPD2: just found out that I have no folder called 'Minetest' in /Library/Application Support or /Contents/User. Have no idea why because they are stated in README file

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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Sounds like your system is a little off. An error is seen at line 4, where the path is in part repeated when it shouldn't.

There should be no Minetest directory in /Library/Application Support but in ~/Library/Application Support .

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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texmex wrote:There should be no Minetest directory in /Library/Application Support but in ~/Library/Application Support .
Thank you for this because I have found debug.txt :DDD
And now I have found some information. So, the lines before the separator were before the program crashed and the lines after separator appear every time I open the program now.
https://pasteboard.co/I0Q5MM1.png

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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YES I GOT IT
Deleting everything from minetest.conf helped! I think I have just removed other files called minetest.conf :D
Thanks everybody for advices and support!!! It really works 0_0

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Re: Launching Minetest Provides Blank, White Screen

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Good to hear! In addition, by looking at your debug.txt it looks like you’re installing games and mods INSIDE the application. That will make you all those added things next update. Instead, place mods and games in directories called that inside ~/L/AS/minetest (the aforementioned path)

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