| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/rstudio-desktop.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | rstudio-desktop |
| Description: | A powerful and productive integrated development environment (IDE) for R programming language |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio |
| Licenses: | AGPL-3.0-only |
| Conflicts: | rstudio-desktop |
| Provides: | rstudio-desktop |
| Submitter: | None |
| Maintainer: | xiota |
| Last Packager: | xiota |
| Votes: | 73 |
| Popularity: | 0.57 |
| First Submitted: | 2011-03-04 15:02 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-05-12 06:23 (UTC) |
@xiota,
I tried the launcher and the snippet from @dr_evo, but it still isn't fully compatible (at least with my system as I receive a GLES version 3 being greater than the max supported by my system (2.0)).
I couldn't find anything on how to lower the GLES...
@dr_evo I'll add support to read options from ~/.config/rstudio-flags.conf. I will probably reference your repo as a list of potentially useful flags. Will take a little while because I have a backlog of other packages to update.
@xiota I've done some research and added some comments to my script, you can check it out ( https://github.com/ozankiratli/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/sway/scripts/rstudio-wayland ). A secondary launcher might be a good idea to help people using Wayland (I think chromium and electron have no intention of addressing this soon). I think it would be better if the switches could be read from a user-defined file in the .config folder. This is only a workaround, so the switches needed might differ for different system configurations.
@ith140 Try: # RSTUDIO_QUERY_FONTS=0 rstudio
@dr_evo Don't worry. I'll avoid breaking X11. Would add your script as a secondary launcher rstudio-wayland, or make a new script that reads user-defined options from another file.
@xiota I believe my solution would need testing in X11 and Wayland and maybe in at least two machines before adding it to the package. Currently, the script on my GitHub is enabling some loosely tested features namely WebGPU, and features that depend on other libraries, namely ffmpeg. I never got to get electron to work with vulkan, it is a work in progress. The very stripped-down version (that doesn't trigger any errors on wayland) would be:
rstudio \
--ozone-platform-hint=auto \
--use-gl=angle \
--enable-features=VaapiVideoEncoder,VaapiVideoDecoder,WaylandWindowDecorations,CanvasOopRasterization \
--enable-gpu-rasterization \
--enable-accelerated-2d-canvas
I believe this would work in most setups. I think --enable-features switches VaapiVideoEncoder, and VaapiVideoDecoder should be tested on a system where ffmpeg is not installed, and WaylandWindowDecorations should be tested on X11 to see if they cause any issues. I worry that the way I do things might be too eccentric for general use.
I believe if a run script is created, it should first check for XDG_SESSION_TYPE and pass the proper flags according to the session type. The problem arises from slow development on electron when it comes to Linux. All these steps I'm describing are merely workarounds.
Edit: I found out that some of the flags are obsolete. I removed them from the snippet above.
@ith140 If you can confirm whether dr_evo's script resolves your problem, I'll consider adding it to the package.
Another option is to try to enable reading from a flags file.
@ith140 The problem you mention is I believe related to electron. If you're using Wayland, I have been keeping an open issue on rstudio repo. You may need to set "--use-gl=angle" when starting rstudio. Check this out and keep an eye on: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/11962 I'll keep posting workarounds, until electron provides wayland support by default with proper GPU support.
It is known that rstudio on electron is laggy and buggy. I've also been playing around flags to turn on as many hardware acceleration features as possible, I managed to get rstudio to work much more smoothly on my machine. I have a script to start rstudio, you can check it out. It might not necessarily work for you but it might give you a starting point. https://github.com/ozankiratli/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/sway/scripts/rstudio-wayland
I've had an issue with the new package. It builds successfully for me, but when I try to execute rstudio I get:
[61760:1010/163700.261532:ERROR:gl_factory.cc(120)] Requested GL implementation (gl=none,angle=none) not found in allowed implementations: [(gl=egl-angle,angle=default),(gl=egl-gles2,angle=none)].
[61760:1010/163700.274374:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(198)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Am I missing a package? It could also be because I'm running this inside a VM (however it used to work for me).
RSTUDIO_QUERY_FONTS=0 rstudio
On my Manjaro box this is the only way I can get to startup RStudio after upgrading from the previous version. Any idea to solve the font issue? Only "Ubuntu Mono" font is listed in the appearance option.
Pinned Comments
xiota commented on 2025-03-01 05:16 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-01 20:46 (UTC) by xiota)
Packaging notes:
pacman -Syuddprior to rebuilding. This is unnecessary when building in a clean chroot.: ${var:=value}can be set in the environment prior to build.var=value makepkg -rsC; Method for AUR helpers may vary.extra-x86_64-build -- var=valueProblems?