Can't get the program to work.

[Ruhrev]

OS: Elementary OS 5.0 Juno (based on Ubuntu 18.04)

I have Python2 and Python3 installed.

Not sure if this is a keybind issue or not, but I installed "indicator-fileshare-0.6.0.deb" using apt-get install, it installed without any issues.

Problem is that nothing happens when I try to start the Fileshare Applet, no indicator that it has started or anything. I also checked if python3 could import Keybinder properly from gi.repository - it couldn't.

>>> from gi.repository import Keybinder
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 888, in _find_spec
AttributeError: 'DynamicImporter' object has no attribute 'find_spec'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/importer.py", line 127, in find_module
    'introspection typelib not found' % namespace)
ImportError: cannot import name Keybinder, introspection typelib not found

But yeah, nothing happens when I click the applet, and P isn't responding, obviously.

[aikikode]

Hi @johanhelmuth,

thank you for the feedback. Sorry that you experience this issue.
Could you do the following, please:

1. Exit/quit the indicator-fileshare applet
2. Start it from the terminal as a normal user (not root)

$ indicator-fileshare

3. Try to click the applet icon (if it starts) and take a screenshot
4. Post here all the logs/traces from the terminal

That would help me a lot to find the cause of the issue. Thanks again for the report!

[Ruhrev]

Hey @aikikode,

I just went through the steps of which you asked. I made sure that there was no instance of indicator-fileshare running. I then in the terminal typed in (non-root):

$ indicator-fileshare

Nothing happens after I try to start the applet from the terminal, nothing pops up nothing happens. It gets "stuck", pretty much. Prior to starting it I checked pgrep -lf fileshare, and nothing was there. But after I start it in the terminal and it gets stuck - I start a new terminal and try pgrep -lf fileshare again, and I can see a process running in the background. I wait for a while, and then I kill the process.

So yeah, nothing happens really.

Also, I'm happy to help! I'm stoked that you have created something similar to ShareX on Linux, can't wait to use it! :)

[aikikode]

Well, no output is also a symptom :) Could you check then if there's a file

~/.cache/indicator-fileshare.log

That's where the app writes its log. If it exists, could you paste its contents here, please?

[Ruhrev]

[MainThread] 2019-03-19 13:37:01,095 - INFO - ------------------------------
[MainThread] 2019-03-19 13:37:01,095 - INFO - Started Fileshare Indicator
[MainThread] 2019-03-19 13:37:01,095 - INFO - Fileshare Indicator version 0.6.0
[MainThread] 2019-03-19 13:37:01,096 - DEBUG - SingleInstance: writing new pid 2473
[MainThread] 2019-03-19 13:37:01,096 - ERROR - SingleInstance: exception while renaming '/tmp/tmplp49cpzb' to '/tmp/indicator-fileshare-johan.pid':
a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
[MainThread] 2019-03-19 13:37:01,096 - DEBUG - Indicator: creating
[MainThread] 2019-03-19 13:37:01,097 - ERROR - Error: No section: 'SERVICE'

Here you go! I get the same output as root and non-root.

[aikikode]

Hi @johanhelmuth, so I installed Juno and investigated the issue. I was able to reproduce the same behaviour you described.

Elementary OS uses GTK-based Pantheon desktop environment. But it uses custom widget bar at the top of the screen (where fileshare should normally appear in other OS) called wingpanel.

The issue is that it doesn't allow pygtk apps (such as fileshare) to appear there. Or at least I couldn't find a way to do that without breaking the app for other OS. As far as I see some older versions of Elementary OS did allow that but not the latest one. I found a workaround for that including rebuilding "fixed" version of wingpanel to turn this functionality on again, but I don't think it's worth it.

Long story short there's no easy fix for this in Elementary OS now. I'm going to mark this issue as bug until either Elementary OS is fixed or I find a way to overcome this e.g. by making fileshare a standalone app instead of appindicator for Juno.

[Ruhrev]

@aikikode I see! Thanks for investigating it, really appreciate it. I will wait patiently then!