Ran into the same problem as mdshw5. Problem seems to be that the desktop entry in ~/.local/share/applications get overwritten
by /opt/mendeleydesktop/bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh I tried appending the entry with the --force-bundled-qt argument but that didnt fix the problem.
The issue seems to be that python wrapper for mendeleydesktop does not see the argument. My hack was to simply edit /opt/mendeleydesktop/bin/mendeleydesktop and set
use_system_qt = False instead of None. The flags --force-bundled-qt and --force-system-qt will still work from the command-line.
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Package Details: mendeleydesktop 1.19.8-1
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| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/mendeleydesktop.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | mendeleydesktop |
| Description: | Academic software for managing and sharing research papers. |
| Upstream URL: | http://www.mendeley.com/release-notes/ |
| Keywords: | elsevier mendeley |
| Licenses: | custom:mendeley_eula |
| Submitter: | lpjhjdh |
| Maintainer: | ReyJamonico |
| Last Packager: | ali.molaei |
| Votes: | 306 |
| Popularity: | 0.000016 |
| First Submitted: | 2009-06-10 18:28 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2021-02-08 08:39 (UTC) |
<deleted-account> commented on 2012-02-26 15:59 (UTC)
<deleted-account> commented on 2012-02-24 16:40 (UTC)
Thanks for the work including this package. It's great to see so many Arch users running mendeley. There is one issue I have encountered while running mendeley in gnome-shell. The application launcher included in this package does not force local QT version, which is fine, and starting mendeley from the console is not that bad. However, if I append --force-bundled-qt to the mendeleydesktop.desktop entry in either ~/.local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications, the version of the launcher in ~/.local/share/applications reverts to reading "Exec=/home/shirley/.local/share/mendeleydesktop %u". This is kind of annoying, as it seems that there is no way to permanently fix the gnome application launcher. Can anyone comment on this?
Decorian commented on 2012-02-20 13:27 (UTC)
Flagged as out of date, however, it looks like the latest available version (1.3.2) is a development version from the release notes [1].
[1]: http://www.mendeley.com/release-notes/v1_3_2/
<deleted-account> commented on 2012-02-03 08:01 (UTC)
Please, add libpng12 to dependencies (see http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/112106-mendeley-desktop-won-t-work-with-qt-4-8)
xduugu commented on 2012-02-02 23:46 (UTC)
> Using system Qt version 4.8.0 in /usr/lib
As you can see, your flag is wrong. It's --force-bundleD-qt.
<deleted-account> commented on 2012-02-02 13:03 (UTC)
Latest version crashes here with:
~ >> mendeleydesktop --force-bundle-qt
Using system Qt version 4.8.0 in /usr/lib
Running /opt/mendeleydesktop/bin/..//lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.i486 --force-bundle-qt
QSharedPointer: pointer 0xb489b98 already has reference counting
big_gie commented on 2012-01-21 19:23 (UTC)
@xduugu's PKGBUILD works. No problem so far... Thanks.
xduugu commented on 2012-01-17 20:37 (UTC)
PKGBUILD for 1.3.1: http://pastebin.com/TGQtVdLF
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ReyJamonico commented on 2022-06-20 07:50 (UTC) (edited on 2022-06-20 07:53 (UTC) by ReyJamonico)
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/
akstrfn commented on 2018-10-02 15:21 (UTC) (edited on 2018-12-14 14:50 (UTC) by akstrfn)
To avoid crashs when opening PDF's, and hangout on exit install
mendeleydesktop-bundledwhich packages Qt provided by the upstream.