Evolution cannot compose email using HTML or Plaintext body options

Bug #1970192 reported by Nathan
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evolution (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Whenever I create a new email with the Plaintext or HTML body options, I cannot enter any text into the email body, the writing cursor and the text are not being rendered. It's as if the textboxes on the HTML and Plaintext options are not there. If I then switch to one of the markdown options, Markdown, Markdown as HTML or Markdown as Plaintext, any text I entered in the previous two options that wasn't visible before shows and I can continue writing, although if I switch back to the previous two options any text entered continues to not be rendered.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: evolution 3.44.0-1
Uname: Linux 5.15.7-051507-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Apr 25 19:27:49 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-11-24 (151 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-04-22 (2 days ago)

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Nathan (nathan12345) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Gianpaolo Pedrazza (gpedrazza) wrote :

I can reproduce it also with 3.40.4-1. Starting with
$ WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 evolution
as suggested on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1884
is a valid workaround.
I have libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 v. 2.36.0-0

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