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NOTE: If you're using the .desktop file to start the program, Openscad will try to link your system Qt libraries. This is done to enable missing (dark) themes. If you get undefined symbol errors, make sure the required Qt(6) libraries are installed on your system. Alternatively, create your own .desktop without QT_PLUGIN_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

@ostheer instead of having /usr/bin/openscad be a symlink to /opt/openscad-snapshot-appimage/openscad.AppImage, can you make it a shell script with the same environment variables as the .desktop file? Something like:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/qt6/plugins LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib /opt/openscad-snapshot-appimage/openscad.AppImage

@ostheer that fixed it, thank you!

Hi @dcelasun, I'm not sure, but maybe it's fixed now. I added the line MimeType=application/x-openscad;to the .desktop file. Be sure to update the database again.

The MIME association doesn't work for me on Gnome. Double clicking on a .scad file doesn't work, nor does using "Open with" because OpenSCAD isn't listed.

Worse, gio can't see the MIME handler either:

$ cat /usr/share/mime/packages/openscad.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
   <mime-type type="application/x-openscad">
     <comment>OpenSCAD Model</comment>
     <glob pattern="*.scad"/>
     <icon name="openscad"/>
   </mime-type>
</mime-info>
$ sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/
$ gio mime application/x-openscad
No default applications for “application/x-openscad”

Any ideas?

Thanks, the get-latest.py is a very convenient way to get the latest AppImage, actually!

Hi @Felixoid, thanks for your comment. I've included your MIME suggestion, that's a good one. It didn't occur to me because I never see or click file icons (I use arch btw). I've been using a (terrible) python script (included in this git repo) to automatically update the content, which I run periodically. Due to life, I hadn't done that in a while now. I've added you now as a co-maintainer, so feel free to update it if I take too long :).

Do you need help with maintaining the package?

There are a couple of improvements necessary for comfortable usage:

• update the packages
• extract the mime directory to open files properly using OpenSCAD

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 986ab20..51d005a 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 pkgbase = openscad-snapshot-appimage
    pkgdesc = The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller (Snapshot AppImage version)
-   pkgver = 2026.02.19
+   pkgver = 2026.05.31
    pkgrel = 1
    url = https://www.openscad.org/
    arch = x86_64
    license = GPL2
    depends = fuse2
+   depends = shared-mime-info
    provides = openscad
    conflicts = openscad
    options = !strip
-   source = OpenSCAD-2026.02.19-x86_64.AppImage::https://files.openscad.org/snapshots/OpenSCAD-2026.02.19-x86_64.AppImage
+   source = OpenSCAD-2026.05.31-x86_64.AppImage::https://files.openscad.org/snapshots/OpenSCAD-2026.05.31-x86_64.AppImage
    source = openscad.desktop
    source = openscad.png::https://openscad.org/assets/img/logo.png
-   sha256sums = 6effa341343d22891295df5f89b6a3498066d4df5e23f838ba84e5fa019f29fa
+   sha256sums = ecf1e35bc2becd344f8f51056287045ce4aa897696bbd9cd05b89c6e6253ad80
    sha256sums = 0054ea531181266a881fec9ee6b976e7165a404081cd048509621aa1b05403c8
    sha256sums = 9839be1ae8e9203798713b2d0377d265354f4c5d70fc457c3ff6f015e0e5f56d

 pkgname = openscad-snapshot-appimage
-
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 6775bb8..3a56612 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Maintainer: Mathijs Verhaegh <mathijs@verhaegh.nl>

 pkgname=openscad-snapshot-appimage
-pkgver=2026.02.19
+pkgver=2026.05.31
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller (Snapshot AppImage version)"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://www.openscad.org/"
 license=('GPL2')
-depends=('fuse2')
+depends=('fuse2' 'shared-mime-info')
 provides=('openscad')
 conflicts=('openscad')
 options=(!strip)
@@ -18,16 +18,23 @@ source=(
   "openscad.png::https://openscad.org/assets/img/logo.png"
 )
 sha256sums=(
-  '6effa341343d22891295df5f89b6a3498066d4df5e23f838ba84e5fa019f29fa'
+  'ecf1e35bc2becd344f8f51056287045ce4aa897696bbd9cd05b89c6e6253ad80'
   '0054ea531181266a881fec9ee6b976e7165a404081cd048509621aa1b05403c8'
   '9839be1ae8e9203798713b2d0377d265354f4c5d70fc457c3ff6f015e0e5f56d'
 )

+prepare() {
+  chmod +x "OpenSCAD-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage"
+  "./OpenSCAD-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage" --appimage-extract usr/share/mime/packages/openscad.xml
+}
+
 package() {
   install -Dm755 "OpenSCAD-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/openscad.AppImage"
   install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
   ln -sf "/opt/${pkgname}/openscad.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/openscad"
   install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/openscad.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/openscad.desktop"
+  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/usr/share/mime/packages/openscad.xml" \
+      "${pkgdir}/usr/share/mime/packages/openscad.xml"
   install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/openscad.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/openscad.png"
 }

I can gladly help

NOTE: If you're using the .desktop file to start the program, Openscad will try to link your system Qt libraries. This is done to enable missing (dark) themes. If you get undefined symbol errors, make sure the required Qt(6) libraries are installed on your system. Alternatively, create your own .desktop without QT_PLUGIN_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.