I hide the apps without icons and It does not detect `~/.local/share/applications/*.desktop` files about nwg-drawer

[nwg-piotr]

LOL, I thought so. :) Sorry, I haven't seen Manjaro for months. I bet it must be much more comfortable nowadays.

[nwg-piotr]

Sure. I'm a GUI guy, and my vision of sway is a bit unorthodox. ;)

[gusbemacbe]

Observe that nw-drawer crashes just after three seconds.

[nwg-piotr]

I use many .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications, either to hide them with NoDisplay=true or to run them in a non-standard way, and it works here.

Please run the drawer from the terminal and show me the output. Also tell me more about your system.

[gusbemacbe]

Hello,

• Log:

nwg-drawer -c 10 -fm dolphin -is 128 -lang en_GB
lang: en_GB
Found 215 desktop files
Skipped 2 duplicates; 49 .desktop entries hidden by "NoDisplay=true"
Using style from /home/gusbemacbe/.config/nwg-panel/drawer.css
Using XDG user dirs from /home/gusbemacbe/.config/user-dirs.dirs

** (nwg-drawer:420834): WARNING **: 19:51:41.784: gtk-layer-shell v0.6.0 may not work on GTK v3.24.29. If you experience crashes, check https://github.com/wmww/gtk-layer-shell/blob/master/compatibility.md
UI created in 276 ms. Thank you for your patience.
env vars: []; command: ''; args: []

• neofetch:

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██████████████████  ████████   gusbemacbe@manjaro 
██████████████████  ████████   ------------------ 
██████████████████  ████████   OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
██████████████████  ████████   Host: X370GT7 
████████            ████████   Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO 
████████  ████████  ████████   Uptime: 8 hours, 22 mins 
████████  ████████  ████████   Packages: 1973 (pacman) 
████████  ████████  ████████   Shell: zsh 5.8 
████████  ████████  ████████   Resolution: 2560x1080 
████████  ████████  ████████   WM: sway 
████████  ████████  ████████   Theme: Matcha-dark-sea [GTK2/3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Icons: Papirus-Dark-Maia [GTK2/3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Terminal: kitty 
████████  ████████  ████████   Terminal Font: RobotoMonoNerdFontCompleteM-Regular 
                               CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (16) @ 3.700GHz 
                               GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT 
                               Memory: 3802MiB / 16025MiB 

[nwg-piotr]

I see no crash in the terminal. What do you mean by "nw-drawer crashes just after three seconds"? The window gets closed a second after moving the cursor outside it. Could it be this?

[gusbemacbe]

I have tested. It is the search box that the nw-drawer crashing. I was about to search, but it crashed before I was about to type.

[gusbemacbe]

The apps without icons did not tell their names for me to hide. They are still displayed.

[nwg-piotr]

They are still displayed

I'm looking for a possible reason.

I need to know more about the crash. Please run from terminal again, let the app crash and show me the output.

[gusbemacbe]

After I added NoDisplay to the apps, the apps without icons number increased in the nwg-drawer, then I understood now why the apps without icons are displayed. The apps without icons are still displayed because of NoDisplay. If I removed NoDisplay, the apps without icons would disappear.

[gusbemacbe]

Another log, but still the same. I ran the app from the terminal, searched and typed, then it crashed:

nwg-drawer -c 10 -fm dolphin -is 128 -lang en_GB
lang: en_GB
Found 227 desktop files
Skipped 14 duplicates; 44 .desktop entries hidden by "NoDisplay=true"
Using style from /home/gusbemacbe/.config/nwg-panel/drawer.css
Using XDG user dirs from /home/gusbemacbe/.config/user-dirs.dirs

** (nwg-drawer:444007): WARNING **: 20:17:40.564: gtk-layer-shell v0.6.0 may not work on GTK v3.24.29. If you experience crashes, check https://github.com/wmww/gtk-layer-shell/blob/master/compatibility.md
UI created in 325 ms. Thank you for your patience.

TL:R: ** (nwg-drawer:444007): WARNING **: 20:17:40.564: gtk-layer-shell v0.6.0 may not work on GTK v3.24.29. If you experience crashes, check https://github.com/wmww/gtk-layer-shell/blob/master/compatibility.md

[nwg-piotr]

The warning is just a warning. The gtk-layer-shell library had no updates for several months, and it warns it could behave improperly with the current GTK version. But it behaves well.

I still see no crash.

[gusbemacbe]

I tried to debug the crash from different terminals – alacritty, etc. It always crashes when I click and type in the search box.

[gusbemacbe]

I tested with nwggrid and it gave the log:

WM: sway
Locale: pt
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Gtk::CssProviderError'
zsh: abort (core dumped)  nwggrid

Is it this case that caused nwg-drawer to crash, not just nwggrid?

[nwg-piotr]

Well, no idea. The drawer has been coded from scratch and shares no code with nwggrid. However, nwggrid should work on Manjaro... It seems I need to set up Manjaro somewhere, and try to debug it locally.

[gusbemacbe]

OK, it is https://manjaro.org/downloads/community/sway/

[nwg-piotr]

Give me some time. I need to take a closer look at the possible NoDisplay=true bug earlier.

[nwg-piotr]

It seems to work perfectly well. Are you sure you added NoDisplay=true inside the [Desktop Entry] section?

[gusbemacbe]

Yes, see the screenshot:

Compare the first screenshot of the first comment to the last, as you can see the app without icon number increased:

Observe that I added NoDisplay=true to VSCode desktop file at ~/.local/share/applications, it became an app without icon added to nwg-drawer.

If I copied it to /usr/share/applications, it is hidden.

[nwg-piotr]

I'm installing Manjaro on my testing laptop.

[nwg-piotr]

Well, I'm not. The ISO seems to be corrupted. It's not being seen by the ImageWriter, and the checksum is different.

[nwg-piotr]

BTW: could I see your printenv output?

[gusbemacbe]

SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION=1
I3SOCK=/run/user/1000/sway-ipc.1000.2003.sock
LC_ADDRESS=pt_PT.UTF-8
DOTNET_ROOT=/usr/share/dotnet
LC_NAME=pt_PT.UTF-8
LIBVA_V4L2_REQUEST_VIDEO_PATH=/dev/video1
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=v4l2_request
LC_MONETARY=pt_PT.UTF-8
MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE=1
XCURSOR_SIZE=24
EDITOR=nvim
XDG_SEAT=seat0
PWD=/home/gusbemacbe
LOGNAME=gusbemacbe
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
GIT_SUBREPO_ROOT=/home/gusbemacbe/GitHub/Outros/git-subrepo
MOTD_SHOWN=pam
HOME=/home/gusbemacbe
LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=pt_PT.UTF-8
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
SWAYSOCK=/run/user/1000/sway-ipc.1000.2003.sock
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1
TERMINAL_COMMAND=/usr/share/sway/scripts/terminal.sh
GTK_CSD=0
DOTNET_BUNDLE_EXTRACT_BASE_DIR=/home/gusbemacbe/.cache/dotnet_bundle_extract
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
TERM=xterm-kitty
LC_IDENTIFICATION=pt_PT.UTF-8
GLYPH_DESKTOP=󰄶 
USER=gusbemacbe
DISPLAY=:0
SHLVL=1
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
LC_TELEPHONE=pt_PT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=pt_PT.UTF-8
XDG_VTNR=2
XDG_SESSION_ID=3
QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1
GLYPH_COMMAND=󰆍 
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
LC_TIME=pt_PT.UTF-8
GREETD_SOCK=/run/greetd-738.sock
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/gusbemacbe/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
PATH=/home/gusbemacbe/.poetry/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/GitHub/Outros/git-subrepo/lib:/home/gusbemacbe/.config/composer/vendor/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/.rbenv/shims:/home/gusbemacbe/.rbenv/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/.nvm/versions/node/v15.8.0/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/.poetry/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/.local/bin:/opt/git-subrepo/lib:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/.dotnet/tools:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/gusbemacbe/Android/SDK/emulator:/home/gusbemacbe/Android/SDK/tools:/home/gusbemacbe/Android/SDK/tools/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/Android/SDK/platform-tools:/home/gusbemacbe/Aplicativos/Fontes/Android Studio/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/Aplicativos/Fontes/Flutter/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/Aplicativos/Fontes/Flutter/.pub-cache/bin:/home/gusbemacbe/.pub-cache/bin
QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/qt/plugins
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/gusbemacbe
LC_NUMERIC=pt_PT.UTF-8
_=/usr/bin/printenv
KITTY_WINDOW_ID=1
COLORTERM=truecolor
TERMINFO=/usr/lib/kitty/terminfo
OLDPWD=/home/gusbemacbe
ZDOTDIR=/home/gusbemacbe/.config/zsh
P9K_TTY=old
_P9K_TTY=/dev/pts/1
P9K_SSH=0
LESS_TERMCAP_mb=
LESS_TERMCAP_md=
LESS_TERMCAP_me=
LESS_TERMCAP_se=
LESS_TERMCAP_so=
LESS_TERMCAP_ue=
LESS_TERMCAP_us=
LESS=-R
PKGFILE_PROMPT_INSTALL_MISSING=1
NVM_DIR=/home/gusbemacbe/.nvm
NVM_CD_FLAGS=-q
NVM_BIN=/home/gusbemacbe/.nvm/versions/node/v15.8.0/bin
NVM_INC=/home/gusbemacbe/.nvm/versions/node/v15.8.0/include/node
RBENV_SHELL=zsh
GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
MANPATH=/home/gusbemacbe/GitHub/Outros/git-subrepo/man:
ANDROID_HOME=/home/gusbemacbe/Android/SDK
_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk
JDK_HOME=/etc/java-openjdk
STUDIO_JDK=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk
CHROME_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/google-chrome-unstable

[gusbemacbe]

Well, I'm not. The ISO seems to be corrupted. It's not being seen by the ImageWriter, and the checksum is different.

Try from https://github.com/Manjaro-Sway/manjaro-sway

[nwg-piotr]

OK, got it. Will try to install.

[gusbemacbe]

I figured out. The problem was not DNoDisplay = true. The nwg-drawer does not recognise the desktop files that have spaces between equal (=) and displayed them as app without icons. For example:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories = Debugger; Development; Git; IDE; Programming; TextEditor; 
Comment = Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications
Exec = bash -c "code-insiders ~/Workspaces/Linux/Flutter.code-workspace"
GenericName = Text Editor
Icon = vscode-flutter
Keywords = editor; IDE; plaintext; text; write; 
MimeType = application/x-shellscript; inode/directory; text/english; text/plain; text/x-c; text/x-c++; text/x-c++hdr; text/x-c++src; text/x-chdr; text/x-csrc; text/x-java; text/x-makefile; text/x-moc; text/x-pascal; text/x-tcl; text/x-tex; 
Name = VSCode Insiders with Flutter
Name[pt] = VSCode Insiders com Flutter
StartupNotify = true
StartupWMClass = code - insiders
Terminal = false
Type = Application
Version = 1.0

But Drun, nwggrid, Rofi and Wofi recognise perfectly my totally customised desktop files.

After I removed all the spaces between = in this desktop file, nwg-drawer recognised it now.

But curiously, nwggrid recognised perfectly the desktop files that have spaces between =, while nwg-drawer does not recognise.

I observed that after fixing it, nwg-drawer does not display the desktop files icons that are saved in ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/.

After renaming the folder application to application-backup, I tested the nwg-drawer, all app without icons disappeared. The problem was = with spaces that nwg-drawer does not recognise or support, but nwggrid does recognise or support.

Then I tested the search box, it really crashed when I typed the search box.

[nwg-piotr]

You should not use spaces. I do no trim while parsing .desktop files. Surely it could be done, but I skipped all not really necessary lines, as the time of parsing is crucial.

Then I tested the search box, it really crashed when I typed the search box.

I'm not sure what you mean.

[gusbemacbe]

I'm not sure what you mean.

When you click the search box and are typing any word, it just crashes.

[gusbemacbe]

I tried to record the crash, the screenshot is black, I'll seek how to record the crash.

[nwg-piotr]

OK, I'll have Manjaro installed sooner or later. Just need on more free ethernet port in my router.

[nwg-piotr]

I don't confirm the issue. The search entry works as it should on Manjaro sway (latest Release 202106270235). BTW: the Manjaro implementation of sway is the least comfortable I've ever seen.

[boredland]

I don't confirm the issue. The search entry works as it should on Manjaro sway (latest Release 202106270235). BTW: the Manjaro implementation of sway is the least comfortable I've ever seen.

Since I am very open to feedback, I'd be interested if you could elaborate a bit on that. Wdym with comfortable?

[nwg-piotr]

You mean the issue? Couldn't reproduce it in any way on any machine. It just works.

[boredland]

Nah, not the issue, but the harsh criticism of manjaro sway edition ;-)

[boredland]

LOL, I thought so. :) Sorry, I haven't seen Manjaro for months. I bet it must be much more comfortable nowadays.

Since comfortable is a very general assessment, it is pretty hard to argue with that. We certainly did not Garuda it up in any way.

[boredland]

Sure. I'm a GUI guy, and my vision of sway is a bit unorthodox. ;)

I know ;)