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launcher won't run

Open drazil100 opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

I have tried with the super key, I have tried from the terminal, I can get it to output -h and -V, but it never opens a graphical window.

I am using the sysext version of cosmic.

drazil100 avatar Aug 09 '24 03:08 drazil100

You are probably missing https://github.com/pop-os/launcher on your system, which is a required (and separate) binary for the cosmic-launcher. What distro are you on?

Drakulix avatar Aug 09 '24 10:08 Drakulix

I am on Manjaro.

drazil100 avatar Aug 09 '24 15:08 drazil100

If this is required then I believe one of two things should be done.

A) this should be a required dependency by cosmic-launcher (assuming you can't just plug any other launcher into this) B) If you don't have pop-os/launcher installed it should pop up a graphical error message explaining what it is missing. (or at the very least a terminal error if someone tries to debug by launching in the terminal.

I was under the assumption that this was incompatible with my system or some bug was causing it to silently fail. I am compiling the launcher right now.

drazil100 avatar Aug 09 '24 15:08 drazil100

If this is required then I believe one of two things should be done.

A) this should be a required dependency by cosmic-launcher (assuming you can't just plug any other launcher into this) B) If you don't have pop-os/launcher installed it should pop up a graphical error message explaining what it is missing. (or at the very least a terminal error if someone tries to debug by launching in the terminal.

I was under the assumption that this was incompatible with my system or some bug was causing it to silently fail. I am compiling the launcher right now.

I second that!

fulalas avatar Aug 11 '24 14:08 fulalas

Is this still an issue?

iamkartiknayak avatar Mar 27 '25 17:03 iamkartiknayak

Probably not. I forget what context I had this issue in but whatever my setup is now works flawlessly.

Edit: nvm expanded the chat history. Sounds like it was a dependency issue so idk.

drazil100 avatar Mar 27 '25 17:03 drazil100

I think the issue can be closed for now?

iamkartiknayak avatar Mar 27 '25 17:03 iamkartiknayak