Closed Gabriel-p closed 1 year ago
Please see #1311. Do you use poweroff
/reboot
?
poweroff
That thread gives me no clear indication of what I should do
You should either not use poweroff but rather your session tools, or we need a fix for QTBUG-53678 or systemd/reboot should not terminate the XServer before any session managers.
Closing since I cant fix this in Albert (at least all Qt apps suffer this issue if this is the above mentioned qt bug).
@ManuelSchneid3r, the linked qt bug has been open now for 7 years, and I've been getting this message from albert too, but only for a week or so. That makes me think that there must have been something else that made it suddenly appear.
Sure, I made the message visible. This warning has never been just a kind information. It is a warning because settings get partially lost. This is totally not a state we should be willing to accept. Tbh I don't blame Qt because a gui application must be able to assume that a window server exists for the entire time the app is running. I rather think that either systemd should halt the machine windowing friendly or (if they don't think that's reasonable) users should accept that command line tools are just not meant to shut down a gui session.
Well, I totally agree with you, though hoping for qt or systemd to fix that might be something that takes a long time. Would it make sense to create a config variable in albert to enable/disable such messages?
Well, I for one am glad that Manuel made the message visible.
That particular bit was my stumble as well. --> I learned something, as I was using systemd to shut down or reboot my machine. Not doing that again. So I think it's ok that the warning appears. Because... who knew.
I actually use Albert now to power off my machine (or I type out xfce's commands in the terminal or use the GUI).
HTH
I see... For me it is different. I'm using Linux Mint, and I now get this message at startup every time, and I'm using the GUI to shutdown.
I see... For me it is different. I'm using Linux Mint, and I now get this message at startup every time, and I'm using the GUI to shutdown.
Same for me with elementary OS
Same for me:
Fedora 38 - albert-0.22.14-593.1.x86_64
please continue the discussion in #1311
Description
Every time I restart, I get the error:
Expected behavior
A clean restart
Steps to reproduce
Restart system
Source
albert_0.22.14-0+593.1_amd64.deb
Debug output