Gear Lever Failing To Launch
Gear lever doesnt launch on my system since I installed Bazzite. I am on a framework 13 Intel Ultra w/ dual boot. attempting to launch again after 5 minutes results in (Picture 1)
Ive tried updating and restarting my laptop many times.
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Picture 1 Gear lever is the app in the middle
Can you post the output of:
?
colelision@bazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
Digest: sha256:dab8225bbccb60c2f0e963f8cb63b075dcaad26cd0ec170017495842cefe685d
Version: 43.20251029 (2025-10-29T18:48:48Z)
ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
Digest: sha256:ca0d9ff74c55fa3c4bc193594902cea00daf0ebd58420a4eaa5c8952705ffb5d
Version: 42.20251019 (2025-10-19T16:21:48Z)
this is the run command
flatpak run it.mijorus.gearlever
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/share/gearlever/gearlever/main.py", line 84, in do_activate
self.win = GearleverWindow(application=self, from_file=from_file)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/share/gearlever/gearlever/GearleverWindow.py", line 82, in init
self.installed_apps_list.refresh_list()
File "/app/share/gearlever/gearlever/InstalledAppsList.py", line 120, in refresh_list
installed: List[AppImageListElement] = appimage_provider.list_installed()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/share/gearlever/gearlever/providers/AppImageProvider.py", line 96, in list_installed
for file_name in os.listdir(self.user_desktop_files_path):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/home/colelision/.local/share/applications'
Looks like a directory issue?
Should look like this.
what happens when you try to get into that directory?
What directory do you want me to cd ls
/home/colelision/.local/share/applications
Wilco give me 15 at publix, thanks for the help so far!
colelision@bazzite:~$ cd /home/colelision/.local/share/applications
bash: cd: /home/colelision/.local/share/applications: Not a directory
colelision@bazzite:~$ cd /home/colelision/.local/share
colelision@bazzite:~/.local/share$ ls
applications icons kwalletd recently-used.xbel user-places.xbel.tbcache
ark kactivitymanagerd kwrite remoteview uv
baloo kate libkunitconversion 'Rocket League' vulkan
bazzite kded6 lutris Steam waydroid
containers khelpcenter networkmanagement topgrade_keep wget
dolphin klipper onlyoffice Trash
flatpak knewstuff3 org.gnome.Ptyxis user-places.xbel
gvfs-metadata kscreen plasma-systemmonitor user-places.xbel.bak
colelision@bazzite:~/.local/share$
hmmm
okay, check perms on that folder then
Also what are your Flatseal permissions for Gear Lever?
The standard unless you want me to look at something in particular?
huh applications is a waydroid file in there it would seem
and I cant make a folder since that file is there
I deleted the waydroid "applications" file and replaced it with a "applications" folder
Huh...
Did you set up waydroid first?
Maybe i reinstalled 2 times due to it being weird and I havnt used a appimage yet so yea it breaks if you do it first
might want to mention that in the main channel
" I fixed it so strange.... Waydroid puts a 233kb file called "applications" in the share folder. Which breaks gear lever. After deleting that file and replacing with a folder gear lever starts right up. In addition deleting this file doesn't seem to hurt waydroid but I backed up the file just in case. "
If you dont have a ~/.local/share/applications folder before installing waydroid, so waydroid tries to creates a desktop entry file there instead of in a folder. Starting a new bug report here is the hyperlink https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1433524158129635450