Appimage 1.13.7 not working on KDE Neon

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Obsidian Appimage 1.13.7 does not work on KDE Neon, possibly to do with its “neon-specific?” implementation of KDE?

What does not work: button “Create new vault” doesn´t react at all, Open Vault - local or on NAS - seems to do but keeps hanging. So for the moment no chance for further testing

Tested older appimages as well: 1.12.7 and 1.11.7

System:Host: KDE-neon Kernel: 7.0.0-28-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gccv: 13.3.0 clocksource: tscDesktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.7.4 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland with: krunnervt: 2 dm: N/A Distro: KDE neon 24.04 User Editionbase: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble

Tested the same Appimages on - W11 Hosted VM - Linux Lite - XFDE-desktop - and they worked properly:

System:Host: Obsidian Kernel: 6.8.0-100-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/ADesktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.41 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Lite 7.8 LTSbase: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Kind regards, any comments/help appreciated,
Hans Troost

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I withdraw (is this English?) my bug report above.

I figured it out and it works flawlessly now: it had to do with display server protocol: Wayland was causing this.
In the mean time I

  • tried with X11: everything works fine
  • figured out the parameters to use with Wayland in general and on my - >14 years old - test computer for this:
    the exec line in the obsidian.desktop file has to be:
    Exec=/home//.local/bin/Obsidian.AppImage --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --disable-gpu

I assume that the “–disable-gpu” is necessary - without it didnt work - for my old hardware:

Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
…
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15,6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVCF
Manufacturer: MSI
Product Name: MS-7752
System Version: 1.0

/etc/os_release:
PRETTY_NAME=“KDE neon User Edition”
NAME=“KDE neon”
VERSION_ID=“24.04”
VERSION=“User Edition”
VERSION_CODENAME=noble
ID=neon
ID_LIKE=“ubuntu debian”
and more…

My apologies for too fast posting in stead of more exploration…

Hans Troost

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ok, thanks for reporting your findings.