Walker and terminal unavailable, 'Error Command not found: "--working-directory"'

[sedubois]

System details

Omarchy 3.1

What's wrong?

After upgrading to Omarchy 3.1 (accepting the new keybinding defaults) and rebooting to upgrade the kernel, got these issues:

• Omarchy started on a black screen (no waybar, no wallpaper)
• super-Esc and super-space don't open the walker menu, nothing happens
• super-Enter doesn't start the terminal, shows a notification 'Error Command not found: "--working-directory"'
• launching the btop activity monitor with super-shift-T fails with 'Error Command not found: "-e"'

After restarting again, the waybar and wallpaper did reappear but still cannot open the walker menu by clicking the Omarchy icon in the waybar, still can’t open the terminal.

I can switch to a terminal-only session using Ctrl-Alt-F3 where, if I replace $terminal = uwsm app -- $TERMINAL with $terminal = uwsm app -- /usr/bin/alacritty and switch back to Hyprland using Ctrl-Alt-F1, then I can now open the btop activity monitor using Cmd-shift-T. This seems to indicate that a $TERMINAL environment variable is expected to be defined somewhere but is missing. After this workaround however, I still cannot open a regular terminal with super-Enter or by any other known means.

[ryancolley]

I seem to have this too.. is there any way to work around this, or alternatively other keybinds?

[sepulworld]

Updated to 3.1 now I can't launch terminal or browser. Same error for terminal launch Command not found: "--working-directory"

[sepulworld]

If $TERMINAL env is missing in action that means others are probably as well. Im unable to launch a browser or anything

[sepulworld]

I noticed the $PATH doesn't seem to include almost all omachy-* commands. Possibly the reason why most hot keys aren't working?

[calepayson]

Updated to 3.1 now I can't launch terminal or browser. Same error for terminal launch Command not found: "--working-directory"

Getting the same issue here. For those stuck without terminal, use ctl + alt + F2 to open a new tty.

[Radium108]

sudo pacman -Rncs walker-bin
sudo pacman -S walker elephant
omarchy-restart-walker

Try these, worked for me.
Hope it helps.

[sepulworld]

Thanks @Radium108 but didn't help.

I noticed none of my ~/.config/ were updated. There is a new elephant config I see in git https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/tree/master/config/elephant but nothing was setup on my system during update.

~]$ ls ~/.config/ | grep elephant || echo "no elephant"
no elephant

[gverbist]

Same issue. No way to get this to work again. Tried recovering the bak file. Dis not work.

[sedubois]

Omarchy 3.1.1 is available with:

• Add error fallback if terminal was not installed successfully by jondkinney
• Fix update walker migration to run for everyone by ryanrhughes

So it sounds promising, but how to repair the OS without reinstalling from scratch? No upgrade button shows up at the center of the waybar and I can't open a terminal with cmd-Enter. So I tried this:

• switched to another TTY with Ctrl-Alt-F3 (as mentioned in the OP), enter login/pwd
• cd .local/share/omarchy
• git pull (NB: I am on master, and never switched to another branch since I installed Omarchy back in June)
• export OMARCHY_PATH="$HOME/.local/share/omarchy"
• export PATH="$OMARCHY_PATH/bin:$PATH"
• bash migrations/1758107879.sh to reinstall walker 2 cfr. here (DHH instructed to use 1758107878.sh but I don't find any such file), enter password

This prints an error:

Migrate to Walker 2.0.0
warning: elephant-... is up to date -- skipping
warning: elephant-... is up to date -- skipping
...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)     New Version  Net Change

omarchy/walker  2.5.2-1        3.47 MiB

Total Installed Size:  3.47 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
walker-2.5.2-1-X86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'walker-2.5.2-1-X86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from pkgs.omarchy.org : The requested URL returned error: 404

EDIT: Fixed the missing walker by running sudo pacman -Syu, omarchy-update (+ reboot), omarchy-pkg-add walker. Now which walker returns /bin/walker and walker --version returns 2.5.6. I then ran the steps in the migration script manually:

source $OMARCHY_PATH/install/config/walker-elephant.sh
rm -rf ~/.config/walker/themes # this directory was already absent
omarchy-refresh-walker

But still, after switching back to the Omarchy UI using Ctrl-Alt-F1, it's still impossible to open any menu using cmd-space or cmd-Esc.

[sepulworld]

I followed similar steps!

any hotkeys using uwsm-app are broken, and it seems that ~/.config/uwsm/env is indeed never sourced. I can't find where this is supposed to be sourced.

I tried adding contents of ~/.config/uwsm/env to ~/.bashrc and this doesn't help.

Is your OS install pretty old as well? Maybe during install our users received different configs during OS install that are handled differently with ISO install?

[sepulworld]

What is the purpose of Elephant? Is this a helper that is supposed to be loading this for Walker?

https://github.com/abenz1267/elephant?tab=readme-ov-file#important. (Missing env variables sounds like our issue here)

[sedubois]

Is your OS install pretty old as well?

@sepulworld if 4 months qualifies as old, yes it’s old 😄

it seems that ~/.config/uwsm/env is indeed never sourced. I can't find where this is supposed to be sourced.

It would be normal for this file not to be sourced in the non-graphical TTY as uwsm is about managing sessions in wayland. But yes it should be sourced in the graphical environment. Also I don’t know what is the role of elephant in this or how to diagnose further.