RStudio stuck on splash screen after installation

[putueddy]

RStudio installs successfully but does not launch properly. The splash screen appears, then nothing happens. The application never loads into the main IDE window.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Fresh install Omarchy
2. Install RStudio using the provided package (AUR)
3. Run rstudio from terminal or via app launcher
4. Observe that the splash screen appears but the application does not continue loading

Expected Behavior: RStudio should start normally and display the IDE interface.

Actual Behavior: Only splash screen is shown, then the app stalls and never proceeds.

Omarchy version: 2.1.0

[shawntz]

I had this same problem @putueddy . To fix, I just built RStudio from source via the official github repo (instead of installing from the package manager) and it worked like a charm! Let me know if you run in to trouble and happy to help troubleshoot with you 💯

[putueddy]

@shawntz I followed your suggestion to build RStudio from the official GitHub source, and it worked perfectly. Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction and for offering to help troubleshoot — really appreciate it 💯

[shawntz]

Awesome, glad it worked out @putueddy!! 🫡

[emourad]

@shawntz should we close this issue with @shawntz solution?

[shawntz]

@emourad yes feel free to close, thx!

[shawntz]

Also adding this snippet here from my dotfiles Makefile that (should) work out-of-the-box in case someone needs help with this in the future:

rstudio: ## Install RStudio Desktop from AUR (binary package)
	@echo "📦 Installing RStudio Desktop from AUR..."
	@echo "📥 Cloning rstudio-desktop-bin from AUR..."
	@if [ -d "../rstudio-desktop-bin" ]; then \
		echo "⚠️  Removing existing rstudio-desktop-bin directory..."; \
		rm -rf ../rstudio-desktop-bin; \
	fi
	@cd .. && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rstudio-desktop-bin.git
	@echo "🏗️  Building package with makepkg..."
	@cd ../rstudio-desktop-bin && makepkg -s
	@echo "📦 Installing built package..."
	@cd ../rstudio-desktop-bin && sudo pacman -U rstudio-desktop-bin-*.pkg.tar.zst
	@echo "🔧 Installing required dependency..."
	@sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm openssl-1.1
	@echo "✅ RStudio installation complete!"

https://github.com/shawntz/dotfiles/blob/688e5724b77e169f5591ab2288247ac3fa2aba4b/Makefile#L212

[dhh]

Would be great if one of you would explore what's wrong with the AUR package, and see if we can get that fixed upstream.