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aw-qt fails to start on gnome 40 (Wayland) because of old libgio-2.0.so.0 #710
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Thanks a bunch for opening your first issue! 🙏@nbCloud91 I just released v0.12.0b1, which still contains the libgio library.
Can you confirm the error is still present in that release and that removing the lib solves it?
Checked out the pre-release v0.12.0b1, still the same issue.
PS: I'm not using ActivityWatch, looking at the state of affairs regarding Gnome implementation of Wayland, it seems like many convenience software packages will not be available to end users. Neither is there any consensus among the different DEs regarding wlroots or other standards. Tried using sway, but I do not like tiling WM, gave up.
@ErikBjare I am getting this error using v0.12.0b2
I'm getting this error on recently published 0.12.0, on Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu 21.10 on Wayland
vanilla AW:
2022-08-31 17:40:10 [INFO ]: Creating trayicon... (aw_qt.trayicon:205) Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway. (aw-qt:992814): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 17:40:10.760: Settings schema 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings' does not contain a key named 'antialiasing' [1] 992814 trace trap (core dumped) ./aw-qtafter removing libgio-2.0.so.0
2022-08-31 19:20:20 [INFO ]: Creating trayicon... (aw_qt.trayicon:205) Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway. 2022-08-31 19:20:20 [INFO ]: Initialized aw-qt and trayicon successfully (aw_qt.trayicon:244)so error is gone, but warning stays
Reacted by Erik BjäreholtUbuntu 22 after removing libgio getting
./aw-qt: symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL_mesa.so.0: undefined symbol: wl_proxy_marshal_flagsWhen running
aw-qtwith theaw-awatcherbinary from https://github.com/2e3s/awatcher, I'm seeing a similar error:/home/user/.local/opt/activitywatch/libQt6WaylandClient.so.6: undefined symbol: wl_proxy_marshal_flagsThis configuration is in place at
.config/activitywatch/aw-qt/aw-qt.toml:[aw-qt] autostart_modules = ["aw-server-rust", "aw-awatcher"] #autostart_modules = ["aw-server-rust", "aw-watcher-afk", "aw-watcher-window"]
Also reported to ActivityWatch/aw-qt#92 (comment)
Reacted by georg424, JSteeleIR, Illyria, Marco Schmidlin, Ebisuzawa Kurumi and Valentin CocaudThis issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.
I'm also getting the issue with
wl_proxy_marshal_flagswith debian 13 and KDEReacted by SpaceNot stale, please remove stale
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on Oct 7, 2026
Describe the bug
Although default gnome does not have system-tray, most common distributions provide extensions to circumvent that. Thus,
aw-qtshould work in these cases. But upon starting it with./aw-qt, this error comes up and process is terminated:Workaround
the
libgio-2.0.so.0bundled with the application is old and is requesting a key which is not present. I deleted the bundled lib and got the tray-icon to work.