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KorvinSilver

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Registered: 2018-10-27

Posts: 33

Some AUR programs won't start from KDE shortcuts after latest update

I noticed something very strange, some programs I installed from AUR don't start anymore with their shortcuts in KDE after I updated my system yesterday (a few weeks after the last full update). These include vmware-horizon-client, minecraft-launcher, nbtexplorer-bin and amidst. Although three relates to Minecraft, the packages are unrelated and seem random still. Some other things work, like mcaselector, zoom, google-chrome and easystroke. At least for now.
They work fine if launched from terminal or if I set the shortcuts to run in terminal, but that's a strange workaround. There's no errors also I could find, I only have a single line from systemd in the logs that relates to these when trying to start them from the shortcuts, nothing else. No indication what closes them or what crashes.

Example by journalctl:

Feb 18 08:46:31 atsuko plasmashell[1466]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/Task.qml:366: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString
Feb 18 08:46:31 atsuko systemd[1026]: Started VMware Horizon Client.
Feb 18 08:46:31 atsuko plasmashell[1466]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/Task.qml:366: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString
Feb 18 08:46:31 atsuko kwin_x11[1108]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 62967, resource id: 52429075, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Feb 18 08:46:31 atsuko kwin_x11[1108]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 63187, resource id: 52429076, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0

The rest is before the try and several seconds later, and only one line seem to be related specifically to VMWare, the rest show up if I launch anything else that work. This was the first I noticed it with and according to the vmware-horizon-client page on AUR this is something to do with some sandboxing, but I can't find anything trying to Google it, I get a million totally irrelevant results to whatever I try on what this even means or how to disable it, not to mention I can't tell if it's a KDE bug or the AUR maintainers have to do something... and I also couldn't find any other report of this problem.

What could be going on here?

Last edited by KorvinSilver (2022-02-18 10:17:05)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,306

Re: Some AUR programs won't start from KDE shortcuts after latest update

You should generally reboot (or restart plasma/KDE) if you've gotten updated KDE (especially frameworks) as components might rely on outdated libs they can no longer find on the disk. Did you do that? If you did post

pacman -Qg kf5
pacman -Qg plasma
pacman -Qg qt5

kicka

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From: Sicily / Italy

Registered: 2012-10-18

Posts: 31

Re: Some AUR programs won't start from KDE shortcuts after latest update

I have the same issue. After the KDE update of 3 days ago... amarok won't start from KDE panel shortcuts... only if i launch it in a terminal window.

When I click on the amarok KDE panel shortcuts a KDE notification appears telling me a generic error 100 org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown.
From terminal instead, everything worked as expected...

My system has been rebooted several times but the problem still persists.

kicka

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From: Sicily / Italy

Registered: 2012-10-18

Posts: 31

Re: Some AUR programs won't start from KDE shortcuts after latest update

Here's my pacman -Qg kf5:

kf5 attica
kf5 baloo
kf5 bluez-qt
kf5 breeze-icons
kf5 extra-cmake-modules
kf5 frameworkintegration
kf5 kactivities
kf5 kactivities-stats
kf5 karchive
kf5 kauth
kf5 kbookmarks
kf5 kcalendarcore
kf5 kcmutils
kf5 kcodecs
kf5 kcompletion
kf5 kconfig
kf5 kconfigwidgets
kf5 kcontacts
kf5 kcoreaddons
kf5 kcrash
kf5 kdbusaddons
kf5 kdeclarative
kf5 kded
kf5 kdesu
kf5 kdnssd
kf5 kdoctools
kf5 kemoticons
kf5 kfilemetadata
kf5 kglobalaccel
kf5 kguiaddons
kf5 kholidays
kf5 ki18n
kf5 kiconthemes
kf5 kidletime
kf5 kimageformats
kf5 kinit
kf5 kio
kf5 kirigami2
kf5 kitemmodels
kf5 kitemviews
kf5 kjobwidgets
kf5 knewstuff
kf5 knotifications
kf5 knotifyconfig
kf5 kpackage
kf5 kparts
kf5 kpeople
kf5 kpty
kf5 kquickcharts
kf5 krunner
kf5 kservice
kf5 ktexteditor
kf5 ktextwidgets
kf5 kunitconversion
kf5 kwallet
kf5 kwayland
kf5 kwidgetsaddons
kf5 kwindowsystem
kf5 kxmlgui
kf5 modemmanager-qt
kf5 networkmanager-qt
kf5 plasma-framework
kf5 prison
kf5 purpose
kf5 qqc2-desktop-style
kf5 solid
kf5 sonnet
kf5 syndication
kf5 syntax-highlighting
kf5 threadweaver

Here's my pacman -Qg plasma:

plasma bluedevil
plasma breeze
plasma breeze-gtk
plasma drkonqi
plasma kactivitymanagerd
plasma kde-cli-tools
plasma kde-gtk-config
plasma kdecoration
plasma kdeplasma-addons
plasma kinfocenter
plasma kmenuedit
plasma kscreen
plasma kscreenlocker
plasma ksystemstats
plasma kwayland-integration
plasma kwayland-server
plasma kwin
plasma layer-shell-qt
plasma libkscreen
plasma libksysguard
plasma milou
plasma plasma-browser-integration
plasma plasma-desktop
plasma plasma-integration
plasma plasma-nm
plasma plasma-pa
plasma plasma-workspace
plasma polkit-kde-agent
plasma powerdevil
plasma systemsettings
plasma xdg-desktop-portal-kde

Here's my pacman -Qg qt5:

qt5 qt5-base
qt5 qt5-declarative
qt5 qt5-graphicaleffects
qt5 qt5-imageformats
qt5 qt5-location
qt5 qt5-multimedia
qt5 qt5-networkauth
qt5 qt5-quickcontrols
qt5 qt5-quickcontrols2
qt5 qt5-remoteobjects
qt5 qt5-script
qt5 qt5-sensors
qt5 qt5-speech
qt5 qt5-svg
qt5 qt5-tools
qt5 qt5-translations
qt5 qt5-wayland
qt5 qt5-webchannel
qt5 qt5-webengine
qt5 qt5-webglplugin
qt5 qt5-websockets
qt5 qt5-x11extras
qt5 qt5-xmlpatterns

KorvinSilver

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Registered: 2018-10-27

Posts: 33

Re: Some AUR programs won't start from KDE shortcuts after latest update

You should generally reboot (or restart plasma/KDE) if you've gotten updated KDE (especially frameworks) as components might rely on outdated libs they can no longer find on the disk. Did you do that? If you did post

pacman -Qg kf5
pacman -Qg plasma
pacman -Qg qt5

I did, there were kernel updates as well and I always reboot with those.

pacman -Qg kf5
kf5 attica
kf5 baloo
kf5 bluez-qt
kf5 breeze-icons
kf5 frameworkintegration
kf5 kactivities
kf5 kactivities-stats
kf5 karchive
kf5 kauth
kf5 kbookmarks
kf5 kcalendarcore
kf5 kcmutils
kf5 kcodecs
kf5 kcompletion
kf5 kconfig
kf5 kconfigwidgets
kf5 kcontacts
kf5 kcoreaddons
kf5 kcrash
kf5 kdav
kf5 kdbusaddons
kf5 kdeclarative
kf5 kded
kf5 kdesu
kf5 kdnssd
kf5 kdoctools
kf5 kemoticons
kf5 kfilemetadata
kf5 kglobalaccel
kf5 kguiaddons
kf5 kholidays
kf5 ki18n
kf5 kiconthemes
kf5 kidletime
kf5 kinit
kf5 kio
kf5 kirigami2
kf5 kitemmodels
kf5 kitemviews
kf5 kjobwidgets
kf5 knewstuff
kf5 knotifications
kf5 knotifyconfig
kf5 kpackage
kf5 kparts
kf5 kpeople
kf5 kplotting
kf5 kpty
kf5 kquickcharts
kf5 krunner
kf5 kservice
kf5 ktexteditor
kf5 ktextwidgets
kf5 kunitconversion
kf5 kwallet
kf5 kwayland
kf5 kwidgetsaddons
kf5 kwindowsystem
kf5 kxmlgui
kf5 modemmanager-qt
kf5 networkmanager-qt
kf5 plasma-framework
kf5 prison
kf5 purpose
kf5 qqc2-desktop-style
kf5 solid
kf5 sonnet
kf5 syndication
kf5 syntax-highlighting
kf5 threadweaver

pacman -Qg plasma
plasma bluedevil
plasma breeze
plasma breeze-gtk
plasma discover
plasma drkonqi
plasma kactivitymanagerd
plasma kde-cli-tools
plasma kde-gtk-config
plasma kdecoration
plasma kdeplasma-addons
plasma kgamma5
plasma khotkeys
plasma kinfocenter
plasma kmenuedit
plasma kscreen
plasma kscreenlocker
plasma ksshaskpass
plasma ksystemstats
plasma kwallet-pam
plasma kwayland-integration
plasma kwayland-server
plasma kwin
plasma kwrited
plasma layer-shell-qt
plasma libkscreen
plasma libksysguard
plasma milou
plasma oxygen
plasma plasma-browser-integration
plasma plasma-desktop
plasma plasma-disks
plasma plasma-firewall
plasma plasma-integration
plasma plasma-nm
plasma plasma-pa
plasma plasma-sdk
plasma plasma-systemmonitor
plasma plasma-thunderbolt
plasma plasma-vault
plasma plasma-workspace
plasma plasma-workspace-wallpapers
plasma polkit-kde-agent
plasma powerdevil
plasma sddm-kcm
plasma systemsettings
plasma xdg-desktop-portal-kde

pacman -Qg qt5
qt5 qt5-base
qt5 qt5-declarative
qt5 qt5-graphicaleffects
qt5 qt5-location
qt5 qt5-multimedia
qt5 qt5-networkauth
qt5 qt5-quickcontrols
qt5 qt5-quickcontrols2
qt5 qt5-script
qt5 qt5-sensors
qt5 qt5-speech
qt5 qt5-svg
qt5 qt5-tools
qt5 qt5-translations
qt5 qt5-wayland
qt5 qt5-webchannel
qt5 qt5-webengine
qt5 qt5-x11extras
qt5 qt5-xmlpatterns

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,306

Re: Some AUR programs won't start from KDE shortcuts after latest update

ah fuck why doesn't this include versions.

Some more general info

loginctl session-status

how are you starting your session exactly? What's the environment of your shell and e.g. the plasma process?

printenv
tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$(pidof plasmashell)/environ

Edit: hmm I can repro with Amarok, though the autostart I have enabled for it works.

Amarok works if you disable DBusActivatable= in the desktop file, is that the case for your failing services as well? Respectively seems to be an issue with the URL handlers, do your broken desktop files have that on the Exec line, e.g. %U

This looks like a hackfix: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/- … 705ad32d17

... or possibly the cause, as the mentioned commit should be part of 5.91, anyway this is likely something borked in KIO there have been some fixes in this direction and 5.92 got tagged, maybe it fixes this, didn't actively test yet

Last edited by V1del (2022-02-18 19:00:15)

kicka

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From: Sicily / Italy

Registered: 2012-10-18

Posts: 31

Re: Some AUR programs won't start from KDE shortcuts after latest update

Sorry for the delay...

It was indeed the 'DBusActivatable=true' in the desktop file.

I removed it then destroyed the previous amarok panel shortcut and created a new shortcut.
Now everything works as before.

Thank you so much... i didn't know.

Last edited by kicka (2022-02-18 20:45:11)

KorvinSilver

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Registered: 2018-10-27

Posts: 33

Re: Some AUR programs won't start from KDE shortcuts after latest update

I don't have DBusActivatable in any of my .desktop files, and setting DBusActivatable=false doesn't do anything.

Here's my vmware-view.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Application;Network;
Comment[en_US]=Connect to VMware Horizon View virtual machines
Comment=Connect to VMware Horizon View virtual machines
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=vmware-view
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=vmware-horizon
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=VMware Horizon Client
Name=VMware Horizon Client
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=unique
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

Tried with commenting out the X-DBUS variables, nothing changed, also tried with "Exec=vmware-view %u" but no change.