Joplin won't open on openSUSE Tumbleweed

Operating system

Linux

Joplin version

3.3.12

Desktop version info

Can't open to the app to report that information.

What issue do you have?

It won't open at all. When I run it from the console, I get the following:

LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
xdg-settings
Sentry: Initialized with autoUploadCrashDumps: false

The version I normally run is that from Flathub, but in this case I also tried the AppImage version which results in the same output. It's being run within a KDE Plasma 6.5 (wayland) session.

I tried removing all Joplin related directories in both ~/.local/ and ~/.config, and although the files were generated correctly when the app was executed, the outcome was the same, in addition to the console output.

I’ve tried the “isMaximized” tweak to window-state-prod.json, and that doesn’t seem to help.

Aid is appreciated. Thank you.

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I’m running into the same issue and have been since I updated on Wednesday.

Same thing for me:

.joplin/Joplin.AppImage
Sentry: Initialized with autoUploadCrashDumps: false

This appears to be resolved after updating KDE Plasma to 6.5.1. I’m giving it a little time before calling it, but so far, Joplin is opening correctly again.

I take that back. It is working on one machine but not the other. I realized I had an old AppImage of Joplin version 3.0 so I tried running that – it opens correctly. Version 3.4 does not.

I had the same problem on my laptop starting today. I did discover, however, that I could start Joplin from the command line (the same command line as in the desktop icon). I’m using OpenSuse Tumbleweed 20251109 and KDE 6.5.2.

In the icon I set the environment variable APPIMAGELAUNCHER to FALSE. Then Joplin could also be started with a double click on the icon again!

Oddly enough, it does continues to work normally on my desktop. I do use a higher resolution monitor on the laptop, on which it won’t start anymore from the icon.

@werdenfelser what kind of Joplin install do you have? Flatpak? AppImage? I can’t get ether to run that way. Also, it’s now failing on both of my machines again. It’s very odd.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that – it’s AppImage.

I can’t replicate that – it’s still failing for me. I’m using a Wayland session, however. I wonder if that has something to do with it.