It’s been a while since I’ve used Calibre to manage my Kindle, but today I wanted to transfer some PDF’s.
Unfortunately Calibre stopped working as soon as I tried to open a dialog window.
As it seems, Fedora has adopted a new display server, called Wayland. Since Calibre has dependencies in the previous adoption X-Server, Calibre won’t start.
In my case, the solution was to set a different GDK backend, before starting Calibre.
Solution:
Open a terminal and enter the following command:
GDK_BACKEND=x11 calibre