Crash upon opening editor (after loading project) on Manjaro

I know Manjaro isn’t a supported distro for Unity but I’m wondering if anyone is developing on Manjaro and if they’ve encountered this similar problem.

  • Unity Hub installs fine from the appimage
  • The Unity Hub also manages to setup the Unity installation without problems
  • When attempting to create a new project, the loading splash shows it successfully importing packages and setting up the project
  • After the project is setup, the Unity editor crashes when attempting to open the actual editing suite

I’m wondering if this is a common problem for Manjaro users and if anyone has a solution. I do not have the Editor logs from my last failed attempt but I can reinstall Unity and reproduce them. I believe the complaint was about Gtk or something similar (I’m using KDE but I also attempted to run Unity under XFCE and got the exact same problem).

Use LTS and try different versions. I’ve been using 2019 on ubuntu-xfce for a while with no real issues. If you really get stuck post some more info.