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hhannine / superpaper

A cross-platform multi monitor wallpaper manager.
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GUI of app stop working on ubuntu 20.04 #81

Closed timothychen1999 closed 3 years ago

timothychen1999 commented 3 years ago

Env: OS: ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS with gnome 3.36.8 Superpaper: Superpaper-2.1.0-x86_64(Appimage) The GUI of app stop showing up without reporting any error/exception about the gui. Neither running the appimage or the installed version work. I can tell the app is still running as my wallpaper slideshow set up previously occasionally change my screen. The only major change between the last (remembered) successful run is updating driver of my graphic card (AMD 5700xt) Log is as attached. log.txt

hhannine commented 3 years ago

There's an error about a hotkey in the log but I'd reckon that it's unrelated, and probably just an attempt to bind a hotkey that is in use either by another Superpaper process or something else.

Did you disable the "Show help at start" option recently? This makes Superpaper run in the background and then the GUI can be accessed from the tray icon menu.

cristobal87 commented 3 years ago

Hello, I just installed the software and have a similar issue. I installed the software through PIP. I am pretty sure I disabled the Show help at start" which is probably the issue I got going on, however, I cant find the app in the tray menu. Is there: a) A way to check why it doesn't show on the tray menu. b) Modify the show help at start option from the command line? I am also running Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome.

cheers

timothychen1999 commented 3 years ago

There's an error about a hotkey in the log but I'd reckon that it's unrelated, and probably just an attempt to bind a hotkey that is in use either by another Superpaper process or something else.

Did you disable the "Show help at start" option recently? This makes Superpaper run in the background and then the GUI can be accessed from the tray icon menu.

Well, I know nothing about the option. However, I am sure that there is nothing related to superpaer in tray icons. Is there a way to check that config without accessibility to the GUI?

hhannine commented 3 years ago

In the known issues I write

Ubuntu (or Gnome in general?): Tray icon does not show up:
    -> One workaround for now is to use the Gnome extension 'TopIcons plus'.

I do not know why this behaviour is happening on Ubuntu (or Gnome) only, it must be related to the library that I use for the tray icon. Unfortunately I have not found any fix for this.

The show help option can be modified, it is stored in a text file in ~/.config/superpaper/general_settings as the line show_help_at_start=false, change this to show_help_at_start=true. Alternatively, just deleting/renaming the general_settings file will reset those settings to their defaults.

cristobal87 commented 3 years ago

Thank you so much! I have done both fixes and it works like a charm now. Your piece of software is awesome, my desktop now looks amazing!!

hhannine commented 3 years ago

Did my advice resolve your issue @timothychen1999, or is there still something?

timothychen1999 commented 3 years ago

Did my advice resolve your issue @timothychen1999, or is there still something?

Yes, it works perfectly now