Can't load System Settings
I installed BlendOS successfully on an Intel mini-pc, running on a TF card, but I it won't open system settings so I can't find a way to add containers.
If I right click System and try to load App Details, it opens the App Store and says "Sorry! There are no details for that application"
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sed -i '3s|Exec=blend-settings |Exec=blend-settings --gtk-version=3 |' /usr/share/applications/blend-settings.desktop
add to commands: in /system.yaml...33 Replies
for the love of god, please get the fuck off blendos
you should absolutely not run it off a tf card
it's gonna kill it
it's very disk intensive during updates
WTF.
why would I get off blendOS because an unhelpful troll says so? First time I run this distro, not planning on wiping my disk on the first try? what's wrong with you?
If you're not looking to help fuck off
Anyone know why System Settings is not loading? OS installs and runs fine. It just seems to be missing System Settings. I'm testing this out on a mini-pc before moving onto Raspeberry PI tests. I only need it to run one APK.
hello :)
she's right, but if you want to risk destroying your TF card with all the disk writes that's not my problem, just know it can happen.
lemme guess, can't load GTK 2/3 modules in the same vein as GTK 4 ones
try opening
blend-settings in the terminal
thankfully it's not essential to OS operation (use user for containers)context, before we get too bogged down with the TF:
- For now, I just have a mini pc, which has an internal SSD with windows.
- I installed from SD to TF
- Need to install an android container to test out a single APK.
- Ultimate goal is to run this on a raspberry pi on an on-board TF
Thanks for everyone's concern about my TF card.
the
akshara tool downloads an arch rootfs and bootstraps it on each update (this new system replaces the old one, configurable in system.yaml, you should know this stuff), this makes a lot of write operations
sudo waydroid init should do the job for now since blend-settings is outBingo!
System settings don't open. I tried
blend-settings and got GTK 2/3 symbols detected. Using GTK 2/3 and GTK 4 in the same process is not supported.gnome settings still opens right?
yeah somebody else reported this on github
pretty funny considering it's an electron app
but it's not an issue you caused (probably)
its a fresh install
I know
okay so this seems to be an upstream Electron issue: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/46538
GitHub
Electron 36 fails to launch because "Using GTK 2/3 and GTK 4 in the...
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tried
sudo waydroid init and got Already initializedwe haven't added a workaround
other electron apps have
waydroid session start and waydroid install <file>.apk
then waydroid show-full-ui for the phone UI or waydroid app launch <your.app.id> to just open the appthis moved it forward!
So I don't need the container with this workaround?
waydroid is its own seperate thing
we just bundle it
Waydroid - Android in a Linux container
Waydroid - Android in a Linux container
got it
but it's installed to the host yes
makes sense.
Really appreciate the help!
therefore if you're having issues consult https://docs.waydro.id
we also provide a guide here: https://blendos.co/install/post-install/container-guide/#waydroid
Container Management - blendOS
Learn how to manage containers on blendOS
also your app must support x86_64
arm apps require an arm emulator which can be set up pretty easily
instructions here
i've run blendos on emmc, believe me it's a bad idea
the whole system locked up for 5 minutes during each update, and actually running the update took ~30 minutes total
but sure, do what you want
should be less of an issue in v5
hopefully
Jokes aside.. I didn't know it was that much of a storage killer. So when I move to raspberry I'll consider an SSD module.
Thanks everyone for sharing.
$ blend-settings --gtk-version=3 solves this issue (and should solve this issue for all electron apps that are affected).
As it's a read-only fs, we can't add that argument to the Exec= line in /usr/share/applications/blend-settings.desktop so the only option is to make a .sh for now, until that gets added.or you could use
sed to edit itsed works editing the read only filesystem? Idk I’ve never really used sed before. I assume you’d just run
sed s/blend-settings %U/blend-settings —gtk-version=3 %U/ /usr/share/…?Yes if you put it in the commands block in system.yaml
Adding
sed -i '3s|Exec=blend-settings |Exec=blend-settings --gtk-version=3 |' /usr/share/... to the system.yaml works. Awesome.i'm bad at sed but uh
are you sure you put that command in discord right?
what are you on about? I posted it here so that the guy who made this support request knows what the fuck they gotta do - that's the command that works and solves their problem? :PeepoBrainlet:
Solution
sed -i '3s|Exec=blend-settings |Exec=blend-settings --gtk-version=3 |' /usr/share/applications/blend-settings.desktop
add to commands: in /system.yaml