Error on start: "EGL: Failed to create window surface: Arguments are inconsistent" about kitty HOT 8 CLOSED

That error basically means EGL was unable to create an OpenGL surface with the capabilities kitty needs. kitty needs pretty basic capabilities so this is definitely a driver issue. You can also try using x11 instead of wayland, wayland generally makes everything worse.

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As I said the issue is in your GPU drivers, literally the ONLY change between 0.31 and o).32.2 is that kitty now explicitly requests sRGB surfaces to ensure colors are correct. If your driver is failing to create such a surface then it is a driver bug.

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I have the same issue (on amdgpu/5700xt/wayland), however KITTY_DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 kitty mitigates it - would that be a driver bug or rather a glfw bug?

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That's a GPU driver issue, you dont say what graphics card you are
using, but in case its NVIDIA I would suggest switch to x11

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@kovidgoyal I am not using NVIDIA. This is an integrated intel chip.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Lenovo Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics Controller
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177, IOMMU group 0
    Memory at 603c000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Memory at 4000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]
    Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
    Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit-
    Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [100] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
    Capabilities: [200] Address Translation Service (ATS)
    Capabilities: [300] Page Request Interface (PRI)
    Capabilities: [320] Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915

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Facing the same issue, kitty 0.31.0 works while 0.32.2 doesn't start with the same error as the one above. I'm on an AMD GPU.

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A Wayland driver bug. Like I said, Wayland makes everything worse. FYI,
works fine for me in Wayland with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]. You can try
commenting out line 1080 in kitty/glfw.c to confirm it is the srgb
surface request causing it.

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@kovidgoyal thx for the response, I narrowed it down to somewhere between mesa-24.0.3 and mesa-main (as-in arch's mesa 24.0.3 works); so it's either my build or something actually bugged out since 24.0.3

EDIT: confirmed that this also works

commenting out line 1080 in kitty/glfw.c

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