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See upstream issues for crashing problems:

Root cause

Tracking issue

Please wait for the upstream to release a fix or wait for a workaround Flatpak build.

See upstream issues for crashing problems:

Root cause

Tracking issue

Please wait for the upstream to release a fix or wait for a workaround Flatpak build.

Yeah, I don't think it has something to do with the AUR package itself but with the official one. Thanks anyway!

It's better if you take a look at the issue that @quest sent since everything is explained there.

Yeah, I asked for details here because I tried to follow the issue page for a while, but everyone is sharing mixed-up difference kind of error output in that thread, so I can't verify whether it is related to this AUR package or not since I can't reproduce it locally.

This AUR package's users' report is still welcomed. But if you've already tried testing another official installation method and still get the same error, then it's very likely not related to this AUR package's specific dependencies settings, and thus I can't help further.

Edit: I saw a comment mentioning themselves as a session-desktop-bin user https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/issues/1602#issuecomment-3330221992

@escape0707 I think last time I was able to open Session I saw that settings marked but no lock. I'm using Hyprland with waybar. Every other system tray icons work well.

It's better if you take a look at the issue that @quest sent since everything is explained there.

@carmilso The setting I'm referring to is under Settings - Preferences - Tray - Keep in System Tray. Please give it a check if it's on already.

I still don't have any problems running this app. Maybe it's because I'm using Gnome? What is your Desktop Environment and what kind of error output do you get when you run session-messenger-desktop from a shell?

@escape0707 I am not able to use session from some weeks ago because of the same problem that @quest mention. It looks to happen on modern Linux versions. In the issue they talk about that problem that lot of people is having. But I read that I will be fixed soon.

Regarding the system tray icon what do you mean with "settings menu"? If you are talking about setting of Session app I don't remember to see nothing about system tray icon but I will try when they fix the current error, since at this moment I am not able to open the app.

@carmilso I just noticed that on a fresh install, you have to manually enable system tray icon in the settings menu. Let me know if you still have any tray icon problem.

@quest I'm not experiencing any particular problem running session messenger now. Could you describe what kind of issue you are having now here?

Also, unless you are 100% sure that the problem you have is unrelated to the specific AUR package you've installed, you should always post a comment in the AUR page to discuss the issue with the maintainer before consulting/reporting to the upstream to avoid bring unnecessary confusion to the upstream in case that the issue is introduced by the AUR packaging process.

For people having problems with this package, this is the issue upstream:

https://github.com/session-foundation/session-desktop/issues/1602

The package can be updated to version 1.16.8.

Here are the required changes to the PKGBUILD:

pkgver=1.16.8

sha256sums=('e48f8dec458683291f74f489781feb8fe4c6abd9242f2481d1c52450be030934')

The source line already works correctly with $pkgver.