Steps to reproduce Enable built-in spellcheck and select American English. Open a vault manually from the vault selection screen. Type helllooo and confirm it is marked as misspelled. Quit Obsidian while that vault is open. Start Obsidian again. Obsidian automatically restores the remembered vault. …

Will be fixed in v1.14.4. you will need to download and reinstall obsidian from our website or wait until you receive a newer snap/flatpak with the update.

This is not a linux specific problem. You don’t even need to restart Obsidian. Just closing and reopening the note has a problem

this is an upstream electron regression

I’m having this issue to and nothing I’ve done so far (all the tips I found while searching) has restored the spell check functionality. I hope someone can get this working again.

[image] WhiteNoise: this is an upstream electron regression It’s upstream of upstream. (Chromium review #8206965 and Github electron/electron issue #50327.) Here’s the work around that worked for me, based on the information in the closest upstream bug. Before launching Obsidian (every time…

@WhiteNoise , please note the suggested workaround from upstream: mainWindow.webContents.session.setSpellcheckerEnabled(false); mainWindow.once('ready-to-show', () => { mainWindow.webContents.session.setSpellCheckerEnabled(true); }); The Chromium fix will probably take a while to land and be ba…

This workaround worked in DEB version of Obsidian on Linux Mint, but I am using Flatpak version. Anyone know workaround for that? BTW this is huge, this makes Obsidian useless for me, and probably many many other people. And someone wrote, that this will take awhile to fix, cos it is Electron (Chro…

Hello! Is there any update on this issue? Is this something that Obsidian can resolve it do we have to wait for the upstream fix? For info, I run the DEB on Ubuntu 26.10

Linux Mint. I can get it to work again if I add a random language to the spell check, then click the reload symbol that pops up. This removes the random language and apparently reinitialises the spell check correctly. It’s annoying though, having to do this every time I open a vault.

We are aware of this issue. This is an upstream chrome/electron bug. A workaround has been proposed in electron but they have not yet releases a version that includes said workaround. If this problem is too severe for you, I suggest you uninstall obsidian and reinstall version 1.12.7 which bundles…

Desktop: Spellcheck is not initialized when opening a note

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Leeabe51 August 12, 2026, 2:50am 6

Same, I posted the below to the Help forum with what I have tried. I am very new to Linux though, so do not have any history of how long it has been broken. The spell checker fine for me on macOS and Windows 11.