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spacefm crash on launch

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Message #22 received at 50742-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: "bdju" <bdju <at> tilde.team>
Cc: ison <ison <at> airmail.cc>, 50742-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50742: spacefm crash on launch
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 21:31:21 -0500

Hello,

"bdju" <bdju <at> tilde.team> writes:

> On Mon Oct 18, 2021 at 9:10 AM CDT, ison wrote:
>> Are you using Wayland?
> Yes, I am on Sway.
>> If so then there is a workaround. Try launching
>> it like "WAYLAND_DISPLAY= spacefm" (notice the space). Spacefm doesn't
>> support Wayland natively.
> This works! Thanks.
>> A similar file manager that does support Wayland is Thunar.
> I'm all-set for a file manager. I just noticed this problem while
> comparing several of them and their performance. I believe pcmanfm,
> pcmanfm-qt, thunar, caja, and dolphin all worked okay on Wayland. At the
> least they didn't crash on launch.
>
> I guess it sounds like this is an upstream bug then. Not sure if this
> should be closed or not. I'll leave that up to someone else to decide.

I agree; it's an upstream bug.

Thanks for the report!

Closing.

Maxim

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