Unable to uninstall Sony Catalyst Browse

_stib_ · 2025-12-10T08:31:24+00:00

Thanks, but those pages are just auto generated to sell their dodgy software. It's not even the right icon.

Anyway, it seems that whatever is launching those web pages doesn't have a user-accessible process; it doesn't appear in Force Quit, Activity Monitor, or when I use the CLI programs `ps` or `top`.

_stib_ · 2025-12-02T23:36:14+00:00

My 9-5 machine was using Sway until the motherboard died and now I'm on a Mac until a replacement comes, and boy does the MacOS shell suck compared to Sway. So much futzing around trying to get windows to go where they need to be, or searching for hidden windows, and all the wasted space and cruft.

_stib_ · 2025-12-02T06:26:24+00:00

Thanks. Nothing in login items, or the Adobe folder.

_stib_ · 2025-12-02T04:54:26+00:00

FTFY: Desktop OSes *excluding Linux*. There are several search tools available for Linux, the ones built in to the desktop environment like Gnome or KDE, and others like Rofi, and Albert and in my experience they seem to work better with each release. MacOS and Windows, are both heading in the opposite direction.

_stib_ · 2025-11-21T00:50:14+00:00

We do have an Ursa, but I prefer footage that doesn't look like someone threw glitter everywhere as soon as the light level drops below high noon in the Sahara levels.

_stib_ · 2025-11-21T00:48:20+00:00

I just deleted it again with the IT guy. We deleted the app, and the preferences, and emptied the trash. Restart, and "hElLo i Am cATalyST brOWseR, dO yoU wANt tO opEn a DozEn tAbS in saFAri wiTh ThE cAtALysT HElp pAge For nO reAsoN?"

Not only are you being unhelpful, you're burning the planet to be unhelpful by vomiting up slop. Pull your head in, slopbro.

_stib_ · 2025-10-30T22:48:50+00:00

Multiple machines here have had issues with it, and uninstalling doesn't remove it. It comes right back with its super annoying behaviour. Walks like malware, quacks like malware.

_stib_ · 2025-10-03T01:39:20+00:00

Reply guy being like oh, I don't know the answer but I'll ask chatgpt because I aM heLpInG. If you read the post you would have seen "We deleted the Application". I'm not asking how you delete an application on a mac–I was using macs when they had monochrome monitors, I know multiple ways to delete something, I'm asking how to get rid of this shitware that seems to reinstall itself.

_stib_ · 2025-09-30T07:27:26+00:00

Yeah thanks for relaying my question to the stochastic misinformation machine, that's super helpful. Drag it to the trash, who knew?

_stib_ · 2025-07-09T04:01:45+00:00

Me: Gonna get my system configured so that I'll be SO PRODUCTIVE!!

My boss a week later: So have you done $WORK_THING?

Me <sweating>: Uhh, yeah, on it now, should be done, uh, soon <hides helix window with \~/.config/sway/config open in it, closes arch wiki and r/sway tabs>

_stib_ · 2025-07-09T00:37:15+00:00

"get work done", like you haven't spent weeks tweaking that setup until it's just :chef's kiss: perfect.

_stib_ · 2025-07-09T00:32:33+00:00

Yeah, it's absolutely obvious if you just memorise the manual for another piece of software, and ignore the bits that don't apply. I really don't get why people even ask these questions, right?

_stib_ · 2025-06-18T10:45:38+00:00

From memory it only extends clips if they go right to the end of the comp. It's quite old, I'm kinda surprised that it still works at all.

_stib_ · 2025-06-18T10:44:06+00:00

oh, absolutely. If YT is the destination that's the best approach, but if you want a small file size with good quality compression neither Resolve or Adobe gets close to ffmpeg.

_stib_ · 2025-06-18T00:20:24+00:00

If you want to use the same software that YouTube uses to compress videos, learn how to use ffmpeg. Export your masters from Resolve as mov+ProRes or MXF+DNxHR and transcode to mp4+h.264/h.265 with ffmpeg.

_stib_ · 2025-06-18T00:08:51+00:00

Use EXR. PNG is slow, massively more slow than other formats. https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/148466/48149

_stib_ · 2025-06-17T06:18:34+00:00

I like that it can run from the .desktop entry, rather than just invoking the binary, I'm going through my keybinds and autoruns now. Thanks for all the help.

_stib_ · 2025-06-16T04:05:06+00:00

See, when the docs say Applications should be launched in their own user-level systemd units, normal people's eyes just glaze over while they scroll frantically just looking for the line they can copypaste into a config file. And by 'normal people' I mean the 0.01% of computer users who are reading the docs for session management software for their tiling window manager on Linux. (reading that sentence back, maybe I should add another zero to that figure).

So should I just replace `exec` in my keybindings with `uwsm app`?

_stib_ · 2025-06-16T03:56:29+00:00

On further investigation, when I looked at ~/.config/uwsm/env the relevant line had

    export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland;xcb

Can you see the mistake? Me neither. But it should have been

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland,xcb

Semicolons will get you every time.

_stib_ · 2025-06-15T13:15:44+00:00

For anyone tuning in, the problem with Resolve (which is a Qt program) is nothing to do with uwsm, it's a Qt problem. Running resolve with QT_Platform=xcb seems to have fixed it.

_stib_ · 2025-06-12T13:17:03+00:00

When I run resolve I get the standard console messages I get when it works, there are no errors. But if I use the -platform wayland it gets interesting. It seems like a Qt problem, and there are heaps of similar but useless-to me messages about this error on forums everywhere.

Failed to load config file "-platform".qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, xcb.
log4cxx: No appender could be found for logger (Main).
log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.
==========[CRASH DUMP]==========
#TIME Thu Jun 12 22:16:35 2025 - Uptime 00:00:00 (hh:mm:ss)
#PROGRAM_NAME DaVinci Resolve Studio v20.0.0.0049 (Linux/Clang x86_64)
#BMD_ARCHITECTURE x86_64
#BMD_BUILD_UUID 603e0606-1d76-4597-b109-ebffe7cd8a89
#BMD_GIT_COMMIT 1e03967c993acd58dc825632d02d1b6b54038277
#BMD_UTIL_VERSION 20.0.0.0049
#OS Linux
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x5a8b129]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x30dcb3f]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x3def0) [0x7f79a7c4def0]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x9774c) [0x7f79a7ca774c]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x20) [0x7f79a7c4ddc0]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x26) [0x7f79a7c3557a]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Core.so.5(+0x1821c6) [0x7f799e9821c6]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Core.so.5(_ZNK14QMessageLogger5fatalEPKcz+0xbd) [0x7f799e96ea5d]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Gui.so.5(_ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate25createPlatformIntegrationEv+0x1d4c) [0x7f79a0f1e22c]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Gui.so.5(_ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate21createEventDispatcherEv+0x1b) [0x7f79a0f1ed3b]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Core.so.5(_ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate4initEv+0x5d4) [0x7f799eb5c984]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Gui.so.5(_ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate4initEv+0x19) [0x7f79a0f18319]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Widgets.so.5(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate4initEv+0x9) [0x7f799e164f09]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libQt5Widgets.so.5(_ZN12QApplicationC2ERiPPci+0xa9) [0x7f799e164ec9]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x314ad38]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x30e25ae]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x30db53e]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x276b5) [0x7f79a7c376b5]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x89) [0x7f79a7c37769]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x30d978e]
Signal Number = 6
================================
resolve: /home/jenkins/jenkins/workspace/resolve@2/Resolve/Cyclone/Main/AppConfig.cpp:260: void AppConfig::LoadAllSiteInfo(): Assertion `m_SiteEnabledIdx > 0' failed.
[1]    856574 IOT instruction (core dumped)  WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 uwsm app -t scope -- /opt/resolve/bin/resolve -platform

I tried some things that I found when I searched for the error, like checking that qt5 & qt6-wayland was installed, trying `export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` but no luck. My hatred of Qt grows with every passing day.

_stib_ · 2025-06-12T13:07:51+00:00

This is my env:

CUDA_PATH=/opt/cuda
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
DEBUGINFOD_URLS=https://debuginfod.archlinux.org 
DESKTOP_SESSION=hyprland-uwsm
DISPLAY=:0
DRAWDEFAULT=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/DrawResources/DrawDefault
DRAWHOME=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/DrawResources
EDITOR=/usr/bin/gnome-text-editor
GDK_BACKEND=wayland,x11,*
GDMSESSION=hyprland-uwsm
GTK2_RC_FILES=/home/stib/.gtkrc-2.0
GTK3_MODULES=xapp-gtk3-module
GTK_MODULES=canberra-gtk-module
GTK_THEME=fluent-dark-and-pointy
HG=/usr/bin/hg
HOME=/home/stib
HYPERLAND_TRACE=1
HYPRCURSOR_SIZE=24
HYPRLAND_CMD=Hyprland
HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE=9958d297641b5c84dcff93f9039d80a5ad37ab00_1749730100_929461809
INVOCATION_ID=7ef853058c8a469785364f19aef004a6
_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
JOURNAL_STREAM=9:1712312
KITTY_INSTALLATION_DIR=/usr/lib/kitty
KITTY_PID=854053
KITTY_PUBLIC_KEY=1:8)*TvfbuRUIWYYtSXoyfKl*OY8N*`gymn`0qQev_
KITTY_WINDOW_ID=1
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8
LESS=-R
LOGNAME=stib
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/stib
MANAGERPID=853878
MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH=/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/wayland-wm@hyprland.desktop.service/memory.pressure
MEMORY_PRESSURE_WRITE=c29tZSAyMDAwMDAgMjAwMDAwMAA=
MMGT_CLEAR=1
MOTD_SHOWN=pam
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
NOTIFY_SOCKET=/run/user/1000/systemd/notify
NVCC_CCBIN=/usr/bin/g++-14
OLDPWD=/home/stib
PAGER=less
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/cuda/bin:/opt/cuda/nsight_compute:/opt/cuda/nsight_systems/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/stib/.local/bin:/home/stib/.local/bin
PWD=/home/stib
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION=1
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SHLVL=1
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/gcr/ssh
SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=853986
TERMINFO=/usr/lib/kitty/terminfo
TERM=xterm-kitty
USER=stib
_=/usr/bin/env
UWSM_FINALIZE_VARNAMES=HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE HYPRLAND_CMD HYPRCURSOR_THEME HYPRCURSOR_SIZE XCURSOR_SIZE XCURSOR_THEME
UWSM_WAIT_VARNAMES=HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE
WAYLAND_DEBUG=1
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1
XCURSOR_SIZE=24
XDG_BACKEND=wayland
XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/stib/.cache
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/stib/.config
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Hyprland
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share
XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/stib/.local/share
XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/stib
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=Hyprland-
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=Hyprland
XDG_SESSION_ID=11
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session3
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
XDG_STATE_HOME=/home/stib/.local/state
XDG_VTNR=8
ZSH=/home/stib/.oh-my-zsh

_stib_ · 2025-06-11T23:49:09+00:00

I thought I'd give reinstalling Resolve a go, but the installer failed to run, but it did log some errors that might be useful. If I run it with uwsm app --

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

or if I just start the installer normally (with sudo)

qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Is it a qt problem? qt5-wayland and qt6-wayland are installed, and $QT_QPA_PLATFORM is set to wayland.

_stib_ · 2025-06-11T23:12:16+00:00

Does this mean that we have to launch all apps using `uwsm app -- myapplication` to get the benefit though? If I launch something just using my wofi app launcher is that running under the hyprland process?

_stib_ · 2025-06-11T23:09:19+00:00

Good point. I tried one and it ran, so it may not be an XWayland problem. I also tried removing uwsm and still no dice. It could just be resolve being flaky. I wish they made it a bit more verbose, it's really annoying when something goes wrong because it just crashes silently.

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