I’ve noticed that some apps sometimes don’t start from the GUI. I’ve seen it on several computers (all running Ubuntu 22.04). That includes double-clicking an appimage icon from an explorer window, or launching an app through a launcher shortcut. But if I open them manually from a terminal window they never fail to start.
The terminal workaround is fine… But any ideas what could be wrong with the GUI? Is there a service I can restart to try to get the functionality back?
EDIT: I’ll add that the issue is sporadic. Steam will open fine from the GUI today, but tomorrow it won’t, etc. (It’s not as simple as a bad path in a shortcut)
Check Xorg logs, probably in /var/log, or possibly system log /var/log/syslog or messages.
Look at your path, On my system if I choose Wayland, and open a shell I was seeing root’s path structure (/sbin /usr/sbin etc) Even when I fixed the shell by editing .profile the GUI still could not find programs in /usr/games. Everything is fine under Xorg.
If this is X, you checked ~/.xsession-errors ?
