VTK9 blank rendering window

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I finally found out that If I set in my nvidia-settings “Override Application Settings”

Screenshot from 2021-04-19 23-50-38

then I get a completely blank rendering window:

Screenshot from 2021-04-20 01-31-08

my system:

vtk version       : 9.0.1
python version    : 3.8.5 (default, Sep  4 2020, 07:30:14) [GCC 7.3.0]
system            : Linux 5.4.0-72-generic posix x86_64
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Interesting. What program are you running here? Do you get this black window with any VTK test program?

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Yes, all examples give a blank screen in vtk9.0.1 (Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS).
Version vtk8.1.2 works fine.

Also paraview works ok, but i’m not sure what vtk is it based upon.

 > /usr/bin/paraview --version
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyparaview version 5.7.0