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karimox98

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Registered: 2015-09-25

Posts: 1

Certain GNOME apps not opening

Hi everyone,

I installed Arch yesterday with Gnome but I'm having some problems with it.

Certain GNOME apps like nautilus, totem, and cheese won't start. I've googled the problem and found out that it might be gnome-shell issue.

I'll be happy if anyone can help me and point me to the right logs to upload for this issue.
Thanks!

EDIT: looks like I can run these apps from terminal but not from launcher. Typing "nautilus" from terminal opens the app, but opening "files" from launcher doesn't work

EDIT2:running gnome in wayland, I was able to open all apps correctly, logged out, startx, everything still working, reboot, no apps again.

It looks like I have to go through wayland to fix the problem?

I really hope someone can help me with this?

Last edited by karimox98 (2015-09-25 11:26:47)

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Certain GNOME apps not opening

check for any error messages from systemd journal, or by starting applications from terminal.

I guessing this may be the same issue as https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202759