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After closing the DevPod GUI, it won't reopen again

Open dennisvanderweide opened this issue 9 months ago • 3 comments

What happened? Every time, after closing the DevPod desktop app, I can't reopen it again. There is no error or anything so I have no idea why it won't open. After a reboot, it will open again just fine, but only one time.

What did you expect to happen instead? I expect DevPod to reopen after closing, just like it does the first time.

How can we reproduce the bug? (as minimally and precisely as possible)
Just try to open, close and reopen the desktop app.

Local Environment:

  • DevPod Version: v0.7.0-alpha.30
  • Operating System: Linux
  • Desktop Environment: GNOME
  • ARCH of the OS: AMD64

dennisvanderweide avatar May 26 '25 10:05 dennisvanderweide

I can confirm that the Flatpak of DevPod has this behavior on KDE, but not GNOME.

When you close the app, it's supposed to close to the systray. On GNOME, DevPod appears in the systray. On KDE, it doesn't. In either case, launching the app with the .desktop file does nothing if it's already running in the background.

nicholas-stout avatar Jun 15 '25 03:06 nicholas-stout

I am actually using GNOME. Closing DevPod on GNOME just closes the application like any other application. I don't see it still running in the background anywhere. It just looks like it fully closed, but reopening doesn't do anything.

dennisvanderweide avatar Jun 16 '25 12:06 dennisvanderweide

On KDE, when closing DevPod (flatpak), it actually does close to tray but the icon is invisible, so it looks like it is not there. If try to start DevPod again, it won't reopen because it is not closed but minimised to tray. Right-clicking the invisible tray icon and selecting "Show Dashboard" maximises the window correctly. So I think the main issue here is the icon visibility.

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vestnazayr avatar Jul 19 '25 20:07 vestnazayr