tkinter's filedialog askopenfilename unable to show filesystem

Question

I have tried for hours now to figure out why the askopenfilename method from tkinter's filedialog isn't showing me any files to select. All I get is this empty window below, no matter what I click, I just get a spinner, there is nothing that I can click on to select a file. I have tried every single google search that has something along the lines of:

from tkinter import filedialog
from tkinter import *
root = Tk()
root.filename =  filedialog.askopenfilename(tried everything here)

This is Python 3.8, CentOS 8, I have even dropped SElinux for a moment, I am running this machine in vmware workstation 15 pro (I am not sure if this is causing it). Has anyone had this issue before?

Answer 1

I figured out that I have to enable Accelerate 3D graphics in the guest VM, after this, it started working. I arrived at this conclusion after figuring out that I could not even put a simple label in the window object, it was clear to me at that point that the issue had nothing to do with python or the tkinter module. It works now