Ubuntu 24.04.4 - Antigravity UI freezes after opening any folder (CodeWindow detected unresponsive)

Google Antigravity
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Environment:

  • Antigravity Version: 1.23.2-1776332190
  • Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
  • X11 Session
  • Intel Iris Xe Graphics

Issue:
Antigravity launches and sign-in completes successfully.

However, after opening any folder (including an empty folder), the UI becomes completely unresponsive.

Observed behavior:

  • Explorer is visible.
  • Center editor never loads.
  • Right panel shows “Drag a view here to display.”
  • Mouse clicks stop working.
  • Menus become unresponsive.
  • Ubuntu reports “The window is not responding.”

What I tried:

  • Fresh Ubuntu installation
  • Fresh Antigravity installation
  • Fresh user profile
  • Disabled GPU
  • Disabled hardware acceleration
  • Disabled extensions
  • Empty folders
  • X11 session

Relevant log:
CodeWindow: detected unresponsive

Authentication completes successfully:
Auth state changed to: signedIn

Could you please help investigate this issue?

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I am also facing the same issue on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

3

hi the same thing happened to me and im using mint OS
so doing the following helped

remove the broken apt version

sudo apt remove antigravity

download the tar.gz from https://antigravity.google (Linux tarball)

cd ~/Downloads
tar -xvzf “Antigravity IDE.tar.gz”
sudo mv “Antigravity IDE” /opt/antigravity

fix sandbox permissions (required for Electron apps)

sudo chown root:root /opt/antigravity/chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 /opt/antigravity/chrome-sandbox

create a desktop launcher

cat << ‘EOF’ > ~/.local/share/applications/antigravity-ide.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Antigravity IDE
Comment=Antigravity Agentic IDE
Exec=/opt/antigravity/antigravity-ide %U
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/opt/antigravity/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png
Categories=Development;IDE;
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=Antigravity
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/antigravity;
EOF

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

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Google just launched the new flash model and the 1.x IDE is not officially deprecated. Please upgrade the IDE to 2.x to continue using it.