Ubuntu UI Bug Fix

[George Kelly]

Hello,

I'm a long time user of SmartGit and love it. I recently purchased SmartSVN for a project that uses SVN instead and like that it's very similar... but it was pretty buggy at first.

I'm using Ubuntu 25.10 with Gnome (will be updating to 26.04 shortly). They're making a lot of changes right now removing some X11 support and moving closer to Wayland.

I was having an annoying GUI issue where clicks would register (could open file selection pop up menus) but the UI was unresponsive - text wouldn't appear in fields, couldn't highlight file names, etc). I tried some standard AI debugging prompts and none worked.

I ended up comparing `bin/smartsvn.sh` to `bin/smartgit.sh`. Turns out SmartGit removed this line long ago:

if [ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" = "wayland" ]; then

export GDK_BACKEND=x11

fi

So smartsvn.sh was forcing GDK_BACKEND=x11 even if I didn't want that. Removing that whole if-statement fixed SmartSVN for me on Ubuntu 25.10 with Gnome.

Just wanted to share. Hopefully this helps everyone. And maybe Syntevo can update the SmartSVN script to match SmartGit in this detail?