Various problems with Unity and Ubuntu 24.04

Hi, just wanted to centralize some of the main issues I’m seeing trying to get Unity (latest preview + latest LTS) working on the current Ubuntu LTS.

  1. Blocker but workaround available: Startup issues. This is already covered pretty well here , especially this solution .
  2. Minor: tiny windows. For some reason, it starts up like this every time:

minorly annoying, but also every window from within the app (e.g. Project Settings) is also tiny initially. Why.

  1. Minor: I have to reset the external editor to Rider every time I start up Unity. Yes, I’ve tried Save Project, no change.
  2. Blocker: the title bar, and certain menus, click “through” the application and select whatever’s behind the application instead. I think it was working a day or two ago, but now I can’t select anything right of GameObject at all. I recorded a little .webm but can’t seem to attach that here.

Would love a workaround for #4 because I kinda can’t work on the game without resolving that.

  • Unity Hub 3.8.0
  • Unity 6 Preview (6000.0.4f1) and Unity 2022.3.32f1
  • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Ah…re #4, it’s not just the title bar, it’s random parts of the interface too. So even if I can get the window maximized, I can’t do much.

Did anybody find the solution to #3 issue. It’s not only external editor any personalized settings are not saved. Have to resave on every open of the project. I am using Ubuntu 24 LTS and Unity Hub 3.8 Version.

This post kept coming up for me whilst googling solutions, though I had a slightly different set of issues, and took some extra steps, so throwing down my notes too. Apologies for breaking apart some URLs and not using markdown, can’t post more than 2 links as a new user.

  1. Startup Issues as mentioned in nanodeath’s post. Specifically I used this solution from the linked thread, and it worked like a charm: Unity Hub and (X)ubuntu 24.04 not starting Workaround - #28 by ryqjufqvrnyhuxewucnpubvj

  2. Editor was hanging indefinitely during the Importing stage, but this workaround got me past that - note the file has to be bee_backend and not bee_backend.sh heed warnings in the post- this is a random script from the internet after all:
    Linux editor stuck on loading because of bee_backend w/ workaround

  3. As the project I’m working on has been long running, we’re currently on 2021.3.9f1 and thus I (unfortunately) had to install LibSSL1.1:
    discussions .unity .com/t/workaround-for-libssl-issue-on-ubuntu-22-04/879165/3
    which is well past EOL, but can be installed using instructions in this github post:
    gist .github .com/joulgs/c8a85bb462f48ffc2044dd878ecaa786

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.1_1.1.0g-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libssl1.1_1.1.0g-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb

Issues from the original post that I did not encounter:

  • “Tiny Windows” on startup
  • External editor resetting on startup
  • Title bar & menus being click through

Issues I have encountered which weren’t mentioned before:

  • I had to specify the path to the VS Code snap: /snap/bin/code
  • Moving the progress bar whilst building caused the editor to crash
  • All pop-ups, such as project settings, will start relatively small and cannot be resized. Maximising them works for me though.

Otherwise, things seem fairly stable and usable.

My setup:

  • Unity Hub 3.8.0
  • Unity 2021.3.9f1
  • Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (running XOrg, not Wayland)
  • 6.8.0-41-generic

I gotten unity hub to start doing it but mine just frezzing on “Initital assess database refresh”
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I gave it like several hours but nothing, if anybody know what the problem is tell me, I’ll just switch back to Ubuntu 22.04 in the meantime

Unity currently not compatible with ubuntu up to date versions.

It’s working overall but extreme slow, many deadlock and loops, etc…, basicly unusable.

Until they release new updated editor, you can use dual boot.(22.04 for unity & main os)

Unity 6 is supposed to be supported on Ubuntu 24.04. We are aware of the Hub issue, but we haven’t seen 2, 3, or 4. If they still occur with the latest build of Unity 6, please file a bug and we will look at it as soon as possible!

Thanks for your patience.

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I do know the stability problems still happen for me at least. The unity hub login issue was solved by installing Chrome (google-chrome-stable. ) Before that, tried Firefox, Chromium and Brave(someone said it worked) but official chrome was the only one that would detect the fact that Iogged in. (Oddly enough it worked immediatly, installled chrome the next time i opened the hub it realized had logged in already.)

Stability problems with the editor are there and quite bad. Sometimes the editor will just crash on startup although it usualy comes up after 1-3 tries. The issue is you open a project it hangs the whole computer. Have to reset to fix it.

I can submit a bug with the log file, but is there any way to do that other than through the editor itself? It doesn’t stay up long enough. (One time it did, but hung before I could submit it.)

ubuntu 24.04 LTS
UnityHub 3.10,0
Editor version: 6000.0.0f1

Hi!

You should be able to launch the bug reporter independently of Unity itself (the menu only launches an external process).

You can find it at $(UnityInstallPath)/BugReporter/UnityBugReporter. That’s a self-contained program that should launch regardless of what else is happening on the system.

I have noticed the addons script inspector 3, super editor, and nice script editor all have keyboard lag as well.
It actually skips characters when typing.

At first I thought it was a problem with super editor, so I bought script inspector 3,
then I noticed it was happenin with script inspector 3 so I brought nice script editor,
then it was happening with nice script editor and at this point I asked unity for a refund for nice script editor because it wasn’t the addons it was the unity editor.

I’m on kubuntu linux 24.04.