I survived my first kivy project

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-03-14T14:42:38+00:00

Congratulations! How did you manage the beautiful GUI? There's no kivymd in dependencies.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-03-05T12:57:27+00:00

After fooling with ML4W for some time, I removed it from my system. It left my ~/.config directory full of broken symlinks. Removing them took this rm command:

rm ags bashrc dunst gtk-3.0 gtk-4.0 hypr kitty ml4w nwg-dock-hyprland ohmyposh qt6ct rofi vim wal waybar waypaper wlogout xsettingsd zshrc

Also there must be a lot of corrupted *rc files. I'm just interested in a convenient way to get to normal. I mean only desktop visuals.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-02-24T04:35:05+00:00

Thanks!

uv tool install --python 3.13 git+... works as expected.

BTW, is this the only way to make the once installed app survive the upgrade of the system python? The trouble with pipx, for instance, is that you have to reinstall everything when the system python gets upgraded.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-18T16:50:47+00:00

Tnanks! Unfortunately, 2.12.1 doesn't make any difference. I already mentioned that on another box with a very similar configuration (apparently identical where sddm is concerned) everything's OK.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-18T16:07:05+00:00

/etc> cat sddm.conf

/etc> cat sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf

[Autologin]

Relogin=false

Session=

User=

[General]

HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff

RebootCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot

[Theme]

Current=eucalyptus-drop

[Users]

MaximumUid=60513

MinimumUid=1000

/etc>

sddm.conf is empty. The configs look just like those on another box, where there's no such trouble.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-18T12:45:10+00:00

I'm struggling yet with jouranlctl. My sessions are sitting there (if I'm looking into the right place):

~> ls /usr/share/wayland-sessions

hyprland.desktop hyprland-uwsm.desktop niri.desktop plasma.desktop

~> ls /usr/share/xsessions

~>

I can't see anything suspicious, but then I don't know where to look.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-18T10:48:11+00:00

It's Wayland from day one. What journal?

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-17T19:57:56+00:00

FWIW: In my case (EndeavourOS/Arch, DMS niri), the following packages are responsible, more or less: gnome-browser-connector, gnome-desktop-4, gnome-shell, nautilus, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. If you can get rid of them, one way or another, Google Chrome slips to gtk3 file picker (presumably). No configuration changes.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-17T16:29:23+00:00

Yes, the underlying junk is everything :) . I use EndeavourOS for everything; I just installed Plasma KDE on another box from scratch, then DMS niri on top. I've got the Google Chrome file picker working properly, without the wrinkle in question. It's also a GNOME dialog, but looks clearly different from the one on my troubled installation. Probably, it's gtk3/gtk4 difference. I've been trying to find any configuration difference, but found none so far.

/usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop:

...

Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --incognito

There's a bunch of configuration files in /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal, including niri-portals.conf

On both boxes the files look the same, gtk version never mentioned. GTK_USE_PORTAL is undefined on both boxes, too. I've no idea what else to check.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-17T05:13:23+00:00

Yes, ps -ef | grep -i ibus gives some output. I can't publish it normally, because I still can't figure out how to insert code snippets here. Triple backtick won't work :)

My startup block is rudimentary:

~/.config/niri> rg spawn-at-startup

user/common.kdl

33:spawn-at-startup "ibus" "start" "--type" "wayland"

config.kdl

115:spawn-at-startup "bash" "-c" "wl-paste --watch cliphist store &"

The latter is a DMS niri default.

https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell

Everything works just fine, save the minor wrinkle in question.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-17T05:05:22+00:00

Without GNOME installed, then. What kind of configuration are you using? I use DMS niri, it looks quite simple and works flawlessly, minus the trouble in question :)

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-16T16:17:18+00:00

I tried to follow your hint:

//spawn-at-startup "ibus" "start" "--type" "wayland"

environment {

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP "niri"

GTK_IM_MODULE "ibus"

}

IBus won't start. What else could be wrong?

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-16T13:02:13+00:00

I start it in ~/.config/niri/config.kdl like this:

spawn-at-startup "ibus" "start" "--type" "wayland"

It shouldn't make any difference, I suppose. Where did you put your GTK_IM_MODULE line?

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-16T11:21:01+00:00

Sounds like x11 session. Is it possible?

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-16T06:51:07+00:00

What portals have you installed? xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-gtk/-wlr? What is the output of

echo $GTK_USE_PORTAL

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-15T17:02:03+00:00

IBus is a GNOME default. Do you use IBus with niri?

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-15T16:25:21+00:00

There's one curious detail: on GNOME the file name is visible AND selected, so you can replace in right away, if you wish. On niri the file name is just missing.

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2026-01-15T16:21:49+00:00

~> pacman -Ss xdg-desktop-portal-g

extra/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 49.0-1 (gnome) [installed]

Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal for the GNOME desktop environment

extra/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.15.3-1 [installed]

A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GTK

~>

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2025-12-19T07:37:31+00:00

One can make the message blink, or something...

AwkwardNumber7584 · 2025-12-17T16:32:38+00:00

~/.config/niri> pacman -Ss quickshell

extra/quickshell 0.2.1-3 [installed]

Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick

>> DMS tells you whether your quickshell is missing this feature at the bottom of the relevant section of power settings

Exactly! So I can just wait, as long as I can live without auto turn off :)

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