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Jotunn

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Registered: 2023-04-29

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[Resolved] Cannot launch app installed from the AUR

The app is called LightScreen and the issue is that, even though everything seemed fine with the installation process, I cannot find or launch the app.
I am probably missing something obvious but here is what I have done for the installation:

$ cd /mydisk/AUR
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/lightscreen.git
$ cd /mydisk/AUR/lightscreen
$ makepkg -sri
$ pacman -U lightscreen-2.5-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

And I reran the pacman -U command to capture the output for this post:

# pacman -U lightscreen-2.5-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
loading packages...
warning: lightscreen-2.5-6 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) lightscreen-2.5-6

Total Installed Size:  0.59 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                        [#######################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                      [#######################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                           [#######################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                     [#######################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                   [#######################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling lightscreen                                        [#######################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

So it is indicating that the installation was successful and that the package is up to date but the app is not showing up for some reason.
The only thing I could think of is that the directory "mydisk" is mounted separately from /home
Could the app be packaged in a way that is preventing it from being seen by the system?

Last edited by Jotunn (2023-07-27 20:18:50)

xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

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Re: [Resolved] Cannot launch app installed from the AUR

Maybe this app crashes or there are some error(s) that prevent it running. Run it from terminal and post output if there are some errors.

WorMzy

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Re: [Resolved] Cannot launch app installed from the AUR

What does the package contain? 'pacman -Ql lightscreen'

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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teckk

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Re: [Resolved] Cannot launch app installed from the AUR

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightscreen

Did you read the front page
https://lightscreen.com.ar/

it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [Resolved] Cannot launch app installed from the AUR

the app is not showing up for some reason.

What does this mean?  How / where do you expect it to "show up"?

Could the app be packaged in a way that is preventing it from being seen by the system?

"Seen" by what / how?

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Jotunn

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Registered: 2023-04-29

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Re: [Resolved] Cannot launch app installed from the AUR

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightscreen

Did you read the front page
https://lightscreen.com.ar/

it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences.

But there still needs to be some sort of manually accessible interface for setting those hotkeys?

I was expecting the app to show up on my system's app list and begin running in the background after I launched it.
I was looking through the site for some kind of quick start guide or something but I am not seeing anything, which is why I think that whatever I am missing here is something obvious.

Trilby

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Re: [Resolved] Cannot launch app installed from the AUR

How are you "launching" it?  Are you running an X11 system tray application?

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Jotunn

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Registered: 2023-04-29

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Re: [Resolved] Cannot launch app installed from the AUR

Right click > take screenshot

I'm dumb ... Sorry everybody!