Blank Window on 1.2 and 1.3 versions

Hi there,
I upgraded to the latest 1.2 stable version yesterday. i received a blank window. See here: https://ibb.co/8YC4cPK

I tried upgrading to the latest nightly build of 1.3, there the problem occurs, too.
I downgraded to 1.1, there is no problemm.. it is working as intended.

I am on Mac OS 10.14.4 in dark mode... light mode not working either. Simply stuck. tried to delete cache. Tried to load with GPU support off by using the terminal command - not working. Anyone an idea what's wrong?

Kind regards
Simon

I am having the same issue. It only occurs on my external monitor connected via diplaylink. Also I see a strange behavior while resizing the window:

out

+1 on Windows 10.
I can confirm that this has to do with an external monitor on DL. The window is completely blank when starting up on the external monitor. When I move it over to the Laptop monitor, the window content appears. It even stays visible when moving back to the external monitor, but I got the same strange behaviour as @dfjenkins3.

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What kind of Apple machine are you using? (what model and what year?)

Are you seeing this even with the latest stable release of RStudio? We've seen this problem in the past but it should in theory be fixed now:

It would also be helpful to know what version of macOS you're running with.

Does it make a difference if you enable software rendering? https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017886674-Troubleshooting-RStudio-Rendering-Errors

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I spent a few hours trying to launch R studio 1.2.1335 on my Windows 7 and thanks to your suggestion I found out that it was rendering issue. After I added

[General]
desktop.renderingEngine=software

in desktop.ini it works as it should.

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