standardnotes 3.181.23 is just a blank window with almost all of the UI missing

[duxovni]

Describe the bug

When I open standardnotes, I get a blank window with no UI except for the top menu bar.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open standardnotes

Expected behavior

I expected standardnotes to have a UI.

Screenshots

Additional context

I've confirmed that this issue is still present if I backport standardnotes 3.183.22, the latest upstream version.

If I build a modified derivation that uses the upstream AppImage instead of nixpkgs' electron (essentially, the exact same changes I made in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/247061), the issue is resolved, so this does seem to be related to nixpkgs electron in some way.

Notify maintainers

@M-Gregoire @chuangzhu @squalus

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

$ nix-info -m
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.67-rt20, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.20231230.b0d36bd`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.1`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

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[squalus]

I saw something similar and found it was related to the secrets service. I went to the KDE wallet manager, hit "Open wallet", and the problem went away after restarting the app.

We should at least have a standardnotes-bin package that uses upstream's binaries.

[duxovni]

I don't think libsecret is involved in my case; I have useNativeKeychain disabled in standardnotes' user preferences, and lssecret doesn't show anything standardnotes-related. Good to know in any case, though!

[bjornfor]

Is it an electron app? There is some GPU cache that must be removed from time to time, there are issues about it here, but I'm on phone now.

[duxovni]

Not a GPU cache issue either; I tried removing the entire .config/Standard Notes directory (which includes .config/Standard Notes/GPUCache) to make it start over from scratch, nothing changed.

[rbreslow]

I am also encountering this issue (on KDE, 3.181.23, latest version of nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable):

[rbreslow]

@duxovni Do you have any one-liners or files you can share w/ your modified derivation? So folks who find this issue can temporarily workaround?

Right now, I'm having to use a different computer to access my notes.

[duxovni]

Sure, here's the overlay I've been using:

final: prev: {
  standardnotes = let
    pname = "standardnotes";
    version = "3.183.22";
    src = prev.fetchurl {
      url = "https://github.com/standardnotes/app/releases/download/%40standardnotes%2Fdesktop%403.183.22/standard-notes-3.183.22-linux-x86_64.AppImage";
      hash = "sha256-tPbTgM13+c+wyhCAPawr3U71ofIHFN96x8QYes7RhfE=";
    };
    appimageContents = prev.appimageTools.extract { inherit pname version src; };
  in prev.appimageTools.wrapType2 {
    inherit pname version src;

    extraPkgs = pkgs: [ pkgs.libsecret ];

    extraInstallCommands = ''
      chmod -R +w $out
      mv $out/bin/${pname}-${version} $out/bin/${pname}

      ${prev.desktop-file-utils}/bin/desktop-file-install --dir $out/share/applications \
        --set-key Exec --set-value ${pname} ${appimageContents}/standard-notes.desktop
      ln -s ${appimageContents}/usr/share/icons $out/share
    '';
  };
}

[rbreslow]

Hey, thanks so much! That works.

[LinuxMason]

Same issue here…