Spell Checker not working on Fedora Workstation 44

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Environment

  • Fedora Workstation 44
  • Obsidian 1.13.4 (official AppImage)
  • Locale: en_US.UTF-8

Issue

Spell checking behaves inconsistently and stops working after closing and reopening Obsidian

What I’ve tried with my existing pre-existing vault

  • Fresh installation of the official AppImage.
  • Spell check is enabled.
  • Language is set to English (US).
  • Changing the spell-check language to another language will temporarily restore spell checking on typed words, but not works already in the document
  • The downloaded dictionary exists: ~/.config/obsidian/Dictionaries/en-US-10-1.bdic - Size: 451,968 bytes
  • I also tested the community Flatpak package and observed the same behavior.

Additional Testing

I created a brand-new local (non-synced) vault.

  • Spell checking initially appeared to work.
  • After switching to another note, spell checking stopped working entirely.
  • Switching the editor to Source mode did not resolve the issue. In Source mode, spell checking does not work at all.

The behavior is inconsistent, so I’m not sure if this is Fedora problem, my settings, or a bug with Obsidian (I saw an older report of this on the forums).

Has anyone seen this behavior on Linux, or is there additional debugging information I can provide?

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I’m experiencing identical behavior. Spell checker used to work fine, but it broke in a recent update. The issue is observable in the Sandbox Vault; opening and navigating notes with spelling errors will have inconsistent results. Seems to be a bug.

Environment

  • EndeavourOS
  • Obsidian 1.13.6 (Arch repo)
  • Locale: en_US.UTF-8
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Seeing a similar issue on Ubuntu 24.04 with the official AppImage, the dictionary is downloaded, but no spellcheck highlights (red squiggles) appear.

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Continue here: Desktop: Spellcheck is not initialized when opening a note