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I will maintain this until it stops working, but this package should be considered "legacy" and the new Reference Manager (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mendeley-reference-manager) preferred.

More Info: https://blog.mendeley.com/category/new-release-2/

To avoid crashs when opening PDF's, and hangout on exit install mendeleydesktop-bundled which packages Qt provided by the upstream.

I get the following error while trying to start Mendeley:

QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Noto Sans,12,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1'
QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Hack,12,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1'
QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Noto Sans,12,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1'
QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Noto Sans,12,-1,5,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1'
QtWebEngine::initialize() called with QCoreApplication object already created and should be call before. This is depreciated and may fail in the future.
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
Failed to run mendeley:// link handler installer "/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh"
/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess: symbol lookup error: /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess: undefined symbol: _ZN11QtWebEngine11processMainEiPPKc, version Qt_5
/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess: symbol lookup error: /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess: undefined symbol: _ZN11QtWebEngine11processMainEiPPKc, version Qt_5
/usr/bin/mendeleydesktop: line 4: 25090 Trace/breakpoint trap   (core dumped) /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64 "$@"

Still works great but wrong scaling Solution export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0.1 && mendeleydesktop

ReyJamonico The new Mendeley Reference Manager does not support Libreoffice https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/28677/supporthub/mendeley/~/is-mendeley-cite-available-for-libreoffice%3F/

Could you please maintain this Mendeley Desktop AUR until the LibreOffice plugin be available?

Thank you

I will maintain this until it stops working, but this package should be considered "legacy" and the new Reference Manager (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mendeley-reference-manager) preferred.

More Info: https://blog.mendeley.com/category/new-release-2/

Sends one CPU to 100% utilization when run and killed with i3 window manager.

Doesn't happen run and shut down from terminal (sigint)

mendeleydesktop-bundled 1.19.8-1

Qt 5.15.3 in /usr/lib (don't know if this is important)

no idea what is causing this, just adding a data point

which: no gconftool-2 in (/home/yes/.local/bin:/usr/condabin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
Unable to find gconftool-2.  The mendeley:// link handler may not be installed correctly.
Mendeley Desktop will run normally. Some Web interactions might not work as expected (e.g. CSL Editor Save).
Install the package gconf2 to fix it. E.g. 'sudo apt-get install gconf2' or 'sudo yum install gconf2'.

Maybe gconf should be added to optdepends.

I got undefined symbol when running mendeleydesktop:

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
QtWebEngine::initialize() called with QCoreApplication object already created and should be call before. This is depreciated and may fail in the future.
"/proc/10709/root"
/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess: symbol lookup error: /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess: undefined symbol: _ZN11QtWebEngine11processMainEiPPKc, version Qt_5
/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess: symbol lookup error: /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess: undefined symbol: _ZN11QtWebEngine11processMainEiPPKc, version Qt_5
/usr/bin/mendeleydesktop: line 4: 10709 Trace/breakpoint trap   (core dumped) /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64 "$@"

It seems that Qt5.15 changed some function in libQt5WebEngineCore:

% nm -D qt/libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5.10 | grep processMain    #in tar.bz2
0000000000758bd0 T _ZN11QtWebEngine11processMainEiPPKc@@Qt_5
% nm -D /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5.15 | grep processMain
0000000000a1b460 T _ZN15QtWebEngineCore11processMainEiPPKc@@Qt_5

So I guess I cannot run mendeleydesktop with Qt5.15?

The bundled version has several duplicate libraries instead of symlinks.

I've added the following lines in package_mendeleydesktop-bundled to save ~129MB:

    cd lib/qt
         for f in libQt5DBus.so.5 libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5 libQt5WebEngine.so.5 libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5
    do
        rm $f
        ln -s $f.10.1 $f
    done
    for f in libicudata.so.56.1 libicui18n.so.56.1 libicuuc.so.56.1
    do
        rm ${f%.*}
        ln -s $f ${f%.*}
    done
    cd ../..

@donpicoro it exists still on the tar.bz2 package :-? or I don't understand what you are referring to

Hi @ali.molaei !

I think your TODO in the PKGBUILD got easier as now the file rm bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh does not seem to exist ;-)

Cheers,

/@donpicoro