File is opened in foreground, but obsidian is still fully interactive.
Obsidian freezes until the external program the attachment is open in is closed.
this is a problem with your window manager not obsidian.
If anyone’s using Leftwm and experiencing this problem, I made a issue report here
This has been report other times for niche windows manager on linux. I don’t know what they do differently from say kde, gnome, xfce or the other major ones. This is a workaround from a user
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-in-default-app-on-linux-renders-obsidian-unusable/26934
Another thing. The arch package is provided by third party and we don’t officially support it.
A dev of my WM said in the issue I made is that it’s not a problem with the window manager. I have not had any similar issues with my WM. The AppImage has the same problem. My guess is that this has something to do with threading/queuing but I don’t know. Implementing a similar functionality to what is done in the workaround with & disown I’d assume would fix it.
@WhiteNoise Is this being looked at?
no, sorry. We don’t have the resources to look into niche configurations like yours and frankly I am not even convicted this is our problem since it works fine in kde and gnome.