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ItalyPaleAle
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8 months ago

1Password not usable on Microsoft DevBox

I tried using 1Password for Windows on a Microsoft DevBox, but it is not really usable. Windows appear but nothing is inside them: they are just white-ish boxes.


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OS Version: Windows 11 (Microsoft DevBox)
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  • ItalyPaleAle and kalbert312

    I'm glad that the workaround works for you both. If you're willing, our development team would be interested in taking a look at diagnostics reports so that we can see if the issue can be avoided in the first place:

    Sending Diagnostics Reports (Windows)

    Attach the diagnostics to an email message addressed to support+forum@1password.com.

    With your email please include:

    Please send the entire file.

    You should receive an automated reply from our BitBot assistant with a Support ID number. Please post that number here. Thanks very much!

    -Dave

  • kalbert312's avatar
    kalbert312
    New Contributor

    Can also confirm this happens on dev box and turning off that setting resolves it.

    I've also seen similar symptoms on my home PC recently (non-virtual). It usually happens when I'm in my browser and 1PW needs to be unlocked. I'll click the 1PW icon in a form field which will prompt to unlock and a small blank window pops up instead. The window is supposed to be the sign in dialog to unlock 1PW. To work around it, I go into the 1 PW native app and unlock it, then go back to browser. The main app window itself doesn't seem to be affected when this happens.

  • I'm happy that the steps helped and that you're now able to use 1Password on Microsoft Dev Box. 🙂

    -Dave

  • Hi 1P_Dave , thanks for sharing the above! 1Password was the only app I could see these issues with (other Electron apps like VS Code worked fine), but the fix you shared worked: disabling HW acceleration did the trick :)
    Thanks!

  • Hello ItalyPaleAle! 👋

    I'm sorry that you're running into issues with 1Password on the Microsoft Dev Box platform. Are you having any issues with other apps? Or is it just 1Password?

    As a first step, could you try the following turning off hardware acceleration for 1Password:

    1. Make sure 1Password 8 is completely closed by Right-clicking the icon in your system tray > Quit.
    2. Type the following into your Windows search bar, and hit Enter: %localappdata%\1Password\settings
    3. Open the settings.json file in a text editor like Notepad, and look for "app.useHardwareAcceleration": true,.
    4. If it is present, change it to "app.useHardwareAcceleration": false,. If it's not present, add "app.useHardwareAcceleration": false to the bottom of the settings list, and save the file.

    Note: Be sure to also add a comma at the end of the preceding setting, for example:


    {
    "app.double":false,
    "app.useHardwareAcceleration": false
    }

    Then try to open 1Password again. If you still see the same issue then let me know.

    -Dave