Cannot launch some apps by desktop shortcuts in applauncher or dock

[blacklightpy]

I'm using your dotfiles, and Obsidian wouldn't run using the dotfiles.

Running it from terminal or from KDE Plasma works well. I'm not sure if this is a Hyprland issue or ags issue.

I've launched Hyprland as dbus_run_session Hyprland and ags as ags under exec_once from Hyprland config.

[Aylur]

I don't use wofi so I can't help you with that. Run ags in a terminal to watch the logs, there should be some error when clicking on the dock

[blacklightpy]

I forgot I used only your Hyprland shortcuts into the default hyprland.conf

No signs when clicking the dock, for this or for any other app

I also tried opening it via dex and gtk-launch and they both work fine too. It's some problem when not launching it via the terminal.

[blacklightpy]

I noticed I didn't install xdg-hyprland-desktop-portal, so I'm building that now

[blacklightpy]

Also sorry I don't mean wofi, it's the ags -t applauncher shortcut.

[blacklightpy]

wofi worked.. so it is likely not a Hyprland problem, and is an ags problem.

[Aylur]

You could try editing launchApp function in utils.js to use some other method of launching apps

[blacklightpy]

I replaced Utils.execAsync(['hyprctl', 'dispatch', 'exec', `sh -c ${app.executable}`]);

with Utils.execAsync([`${app.executable}`]);

Now Obsidian works, but nothing else works. The reason is because I had replaced the exec with a script before to test if that would make it work. Basically it attaches Obsidian to a tmux session to solve the problem of random error dialogs which is apparently associated with some Wayland bugs. The script was like this:

#!/bin/bash
tmux new -d '/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=obsidian.sh --file-forwarding md.obsidian.Obsidian @@u %U @@'

Without the script, it is like:

(com.github.Aylur.ags:4582): Gjs-CRITICAL **: 08:33:00.742: JS ERROR: GLib.SpawnError: Failed to execute child process “/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=obsidian.sh --file-forwarding md.obsidian.Obsidian @@u %U @@” (No such file or directory)
execAsync@resource:///com/github/Aylur/ags/utils.js:95:33
launchApp@file:///home/jyothish/.config/ags/js/utils.js:68:11
on_primary_click@file:///home/jyothish/.config/ags/js/dock/Dock.js:75:26
AgsButton/<@resource:///com/github/Aylur/ags/widgets/button.js:38:29
_init/GLib.MainLoop.prototype.runAsync/</<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/GLib.js:266:34

I'm not sure how the Utils.execAsync function works here. If I had access to the desktop files directly, I could open it with gtk-launch or dex..

[Aylur]

You have access to the .desktop file https://github.com/Aylur/ags/wiki/Applications#application. It would be execAsync(['gtk-launch', app.desktop])

[blacklightpy]

What is the difference between Gio.DesktopAppInfo.get_string('Exec') and Gio.DesktopAppInfo.get_executable()? (as used in services/applications.ts in ags)

[blacklightpy]

You have access to the .desktop file https://github.com/Aylur/ags/wiki/Applications#application. It would be execAsync(['gtk-launch', app.desktop])

Just saw this, I'll try it first

[blacklightpy]

This worked