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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 06, 2026

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@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud @reflex@retrogaming.social I now have a better idea of why Flatpak is such a pain: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-commander/-/work_items/93#note_2781693 😅

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 02, 2026

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@reflex@retrogaming.social I filed https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-commander/-/work_items/368 on our code not doing version checks, so we should at least have a meaningful error message in future. Maybe https://flathub.org/en/apps/app.devsuite.Ptyxis will work for you – it seems current. So if you are still into ugly hacks: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/lib/flatpak/app/app.devsuite.Ptyxis/current/active/files/lib/

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 02, 2026

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@reflex@retrogaming.social You mean the settings directory? There is no settings.ini by default there, it’s created by the application. The default settings are part of the schema, that gschemas.compiled file.

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 02, 2026

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@reflex@retrogaming.social Heh, that libvte is too old, older than 0.76. I expected this issue to be handled more gracefully than just running into an error. But it seems that vte4 crate doesn’t do a version check, good to know…

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 02, 2026

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@reflex@retrogaming.social Once it is installed you can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to use its copy of libvte for Gnome Commander. From the command line it looks like this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/lib/flatpak/app/com.raggesilver.BlackBox/current/active/files/lib/ ./gnome-commander

As I said, an ugly hack. I hope that at some point we will have our own Flatpak, then dependencies won’t be an issue.

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 02, 2026

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@reflex@retrogaming.social Nah, it’s ok. I need to know what kind of exotic distributions are out there. Either way, I don’t actually need the desktop to see how the system works, command line will do as well. I can see the issue. The base system is read-only and has no Gtk or anything. But it has GNOME platform installed as Flatpak which *mostly* does the job but it lacks libvte. Which means that one has to resort to ugly hacks like installing this app: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.raggesilver.BlackBox

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 02, 2026

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@reflex@retrogaming.social Ah, figured it out. Apparently, Fedora dropped support for the classic BIOS. But it won’t tell you that. Instead, it will happily install, only to fail to boot afterwards. 🤪 On to the next problem: desktop failing to start up…

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 02, 2026

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@reflex@retrogaming.social I tried installing Zirconium in a VM, I also tried installing Fedora Silverblue. Neither produced a bootable system. 🤔

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 01, 2026

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@reflex@retrogaming.social It’s the former, libvte 0.76 or higher is required. Gnome-based distributions usually have that already. I’ll write up a brief explainer eventually so that it can be packaged along with these builds. @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · Jun 01, 2026

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RE: https://floss.social/@gcmd/116676637742341221 @reflex@retrogaming.social @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud It is done.

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · May 28, 2026

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@reflex@retrogaming.social One thing that I hope to get done for the next major release is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-commander/-/work_items/323 – that will allow “portable” builds where you unpack a ZIP file and the application just works. It will definitely make trying it out easier, especially on distributions where you cannot rely on a package repository to provide you with the newest release. @tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud

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Gnome Commander @gcmd@floss.social · May 28, 2026

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@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud @reflex@retrogaming.social To be honest, I’m not sure about the reasons yet. There are simply too many more pressing issues now. Looking into Flatpak support is on my list of things to do, eventually. Dolphin is on Flathub, so I guess that it is possible. Of course this doesn’t have to wait for me to find time. If somebody else were willing to look into it that would be great…

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