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webbja123

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Registered: 2021-03-31

Posts: 23

Timeshift GUI does not launch on Arch

I just installed timeshift on my laptop, which is running kernel 5.11.11-arch1-1.  In addition to installing timeshift I also ensured that I had the correct video driver for intel.  However, when I launch timeshift it prompts me to enter my password after which nothing happens.  I checked journalctl after the process failed and it tells me that I had a JS ERROR: TypeError: searchController is null and it also tells me that it received the following message in the log; Received error from D-Bus search provider org.gnome.Recipes.desktop during GetResultMetas: Gio.DBusError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient.  Does anyone know why I cannot launch timeshift?

nunopenim

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2021-03-06

Posts: 22

Re: Timeshift GUI does not launch on Arch

I just installed timeshift on my laptop, which is running kernel 5.11.11-arch1-1.  In addition to installing timeshift I also ensured that I had the correct video driver for intel.  However, when I launch timeshift it prompts me to enter my password after which nothing happens.  I checked journalctl after the process failed and it tells me that I had a JS ERROR: TypeError: searchController is null and it also tells me that it received the following message in the log; Received error from D-Bus search provider org.gnome.Recipes.desktop during GetResultMetas: Gio.DBusError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient.  Does anyone know why I cannot launch timeshift?

Can you check with dmesg if you see anything obvious? Use

sudo dmesg --level=warn

to check for warnings and

sudo dmesg --level=err

to check for errors. I think I had this issue before being on Arch. I don't remember how I fixed it though.

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default-404

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Registered: 2021-05-02

Posts: 2

Re: Timeshift GUI does not launch on Arch

running timeshift-gtk seems open the gui for now, even im on 5.11 cant get the gui using normal means

edit: turns out every other application i install is not being added to the menu even tho it has entry in /usr/share/applications, i did some digging and running

kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental

adds em to the menu

Last edited by default-404 (2021-05-02 17:07:36)

Afthab

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Registered: 2023-11-21

Posts: 1

Re: Timeshift GUI does not launch on Arch

I had the same problem. I got a fix from https://www.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comme … n_display/ .

I just had to install xorg-xhost

sudo pacman -S xorg-xhost

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: Timeshift GUI does not launch on Arch

The OP has not been back since May 2021, so I am going to consider this thread abandoned and close it now.