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please update to latest version and see if those errors are fixed. if not, try cleaning your Notion config folder. Fully quit the notion app, and then run the following:

rm ~/.config/Notion -rf

Note that you will have to login again after running this.

I was able to fix the issue with windows decorations by rebuilding the package using mac version instead of windows. I also fixed the tray icon and some other errors, made some checks to avoid duplicated windows, and Notion seems to work a lot smoother now.

Here is the repo with the modifications I made: https://github.com/mateushonorato/notion-app-electron-aur

The icon being used as the tray and app icon comes from Papirus Icon Pack. @AsukaMinato feel free to merge any of those modifications in this package or to ask me anything about how I made them.

If using fcitx5 and sometimes when you type faster, some letters will go directly into the text box and will not appear in the candidate area of the input method.

In ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini write gtk-im-module=fcitx

by default it uses Xwayland, if you want to use Wayland

if you use kwin

notion-app  --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-wayland-ime

if other

notion-app --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-wayland-ime --wayland-text-input-version=3 

reference https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Using_Fcitx_5_on_Wayland

get the newest version

curl --silent https://desktop-release.notion-static.com/latest.yml | head --lines=1 | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=2

NOTES

• This application has a tray icon. To quit the application completely, press Ctrl+Q.
• To access the application menu, hold Alt for a moment instead of pressing Alt.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Stub Wayland icon is shown in some places when Ozone platform is Wayland

@AsukaMinato thanks for the advice, gonna take a look at it for the next release.

just an advice, maybe you can try using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ast-grep-bin to do the sed things?

it will ease the maintain, but add one more makedepends that in aur.

@wils0n if you are using Manjaro stable, that error is because the package is not yet available - https://manjaristas.org/branch_compare?q=electron33

I get the following error: could not satisfy dependencies: - unable to satisfy dependency 'electron33' required by notion-app-electron

I use this package on Wayland (compositor: river). I switch desktops/tags regularly so that Notion is "in the background". When getting back to Notion after just a few minutes, it's usually completely stuck.

Anyone else has a similar problem?

EDIT: I've read some older comments and saw that a bunch of people have the same freezing issue. Has anyone found a solution?

About the app running in the background after closing it, that's the default Notion behavior. There should be an option in the settings to disable this, but for some reason it's not being presented. I will try to look at it on the next release.

Just to remember you all, Notion doesn't officially support linux natively, so what we do here is just a bunch of hacky ways to try to make it work in the best way possible, but achieving 100% app stability is really hard without Notion's support.

notion-app-electron version 3.18.0-1 still hangs sometimes. Deleting the config folder helps for a couple of hours.

I share my kill script if someone has the same issues:

!/bin/bash

for pid in $(pgrep -f "notion"); do echo "Killing process $pid" kill -9 $pid done

echo "All Notion-related processes have been terminated."

Why is Notion running in the background even after closing it?

Is there any way to properly disable the tray icon and stop Notion running in the background when closed?

I use a window manager (Hyprland) and don't have a desktop environment so tray icons aren't all that reliable, and I want to be able to close the app fully using my usual shortcut Super+Q.

I can get rid of the tray icon, but there doesn't seem to be a way to stop Notion from running in the background when closed (aside from using Ctrl+Q to close it).

I get random freezes when I switch to another window and back to Notion after the last update. Prints this right before a freeze:

[9349:0925/110713.874794:ERROR:shared_image_manager.cc(223)] SharedImageManager::ProduceSkia: Trying to Produce a Skia representation from a non-existent mailbox.
[9349:0925/110713.876833:ERROR:shared_image_representation.cc(483)] Attempt to read from an uninitialized SharedImage. Initialized region: (0, 0, 0, 0) Size: (768, 544)

Edit: Removing ~/.config/Notion fixed the problem.