Total noob, flatpack won't load
Hello, I'm brand new both to Linux and Bazzite. I am having an issue with one of my flatpacks and I'm not sure where in the system I can fix it. I downloaded Vivaldi and it worked initially, but now it acts like it's going to load up and doesn't - I get the little cursor icon bounce but then nothing happens. I looked in System Monitor to see if it was already running the process (since that's a common Windows glitch) and I'm not seeing anything, so it seems like it's failing to proc at all. Restarting and uninstalling/reinstalling also didn't fix it. It started after I changed my account password, is it possible that created some issue? I looked online and also in the server and I didn't see anyone having the same issue. I just want to know where I'd go to fix this so I can troubleshoot it on my own if it happens again.
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for vivaldi, try opening warehouse and see if there are any leftover vivaldi files, then re-installing
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Is this only happening with Vivaldi, or is it happening to other new Flatpaks you installed?
I haven't had it happen with any others yet. There's something pre-installed on the image called "Sunshine" that I thought was doing it, but it did show up in the System Tray as an icon, albeit it did nothing else.
Thank you for responding also
yeah sunshine works like that, it doesn't have an app. clicking the app menu icon starts a service, indicated by the tray icon, and you can double-click/right-click on the icon to open the web interface
Solution
for vivaldi, try opening warehouse and see if there are any leftover vivaldi files, then re-installing
you might want to logout/login or reboot if you rapidly uninstalled and reinstalled vivaldi at any point, since it can possibly cause flatpak to download a 1.0 KB file and think the app is installed (probably a cache error or something)
Well now I know what Warehouse is, thank you so much that fixed it perfectly.