Superpaper began failing to start after system updates

[TheAmazingDave]

openSUSE Tumbleweed running KDE Plasma X11, Superpaper installed via Zypper.

After accepting a slew of updates a few days ago, Superpaper would no longer launch. Selecting the icon from launcher menu would kick it off, with the icon briefly appearing in the taskbar, but would then quit with no information, and no orphaned running processes.

Attempting to start Superpaper from cli however revealed the problem. This is the output:
dave@Dave-XPS8920:~> superpaper /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages /home/dave/.config/superpaper /home/dave/.config/superpaper/profiles Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/superpaper/tray.py", line 472, in OnInit TaskBarIcon(frame) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/superpaper/tray.py", line 109, in __init__ self.register_hotkeys() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/superpaper/tray.py", line 169, in register_hotkeys self.hk.register( File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/system_hotkey/util.py", line 118, in decorator self.bug_catcher.catch_and_raise(function, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/system_hotkey/util.py", line 40, in catch_and_raise self._check_for_errors(func) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/system_hotkey/util.py", line 75, in _check_for_errors raise error File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/system_hotkey/util.py", line 50, in decorator results = function(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/system_hotkey/system_hotkey.py", line 284, in register assert isinstance(hotkey, collections.Iterable) and type(hotkey) not in (str, bytes) AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Iterable' OnInit returned false, exiting...

After a few quick searches, it appears that collections.Iterable is now deprecated and is no longer supported in current Python versions since 3.8. I guess Python was updated on my system which must have been using an older version previously.

It has been replaced by collections.abc.Iterable

I modified the file system_hotkey.py and changed the line to the new value.

Superpaper now launches properly again.

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[labatts]

I had the same problem. I was able to do your suggestion, and it starts minimized to the tray. However, I am unable to access the configuration window. I can right click the tray icon and have it go the the next wallpaper and such, but this is only from my previous config. I have tried blowing up the local config folder, and that does not help. Output of when I try to show the configuration window:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/superpaper/tray.py", line 60, in <lambda> menu.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, lambda event: func(event, *args), id=item.GetId()) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/superpaper/tray.py", line 299, in configure_wallpapers config_frame = ConfigFrame(self) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/superpaper/gui.py", line 31, in __init__ config_panel = WallpaperSettingsPanel(self, parent_tray_obj) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/superpaper/gui.py", line 74, in __init__ self.wpprev_pnl = WallpaperPreviewPanel(self, self.display_sys) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/superpaper/gui.py", line 1363, in __init__ self.draw_displays() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/superpaper/gui.py", line 1381, in draw_displays bmp_canv = wx.Bitmap.FromRGBA(self.dtop_canvas_relsz[0], self.dtop_canvas_relsz[1], red=0, green=0, blue=0, alpha=255) TypeError: Bitmap.FromRGBA(): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'

I'm guessing the last line is the suspect. Any suggestions?

EDIT: I found this bug here: polychromatic/polychromatic#361 , but that is in reference to a different program. I am sure this is the issue, but I am not sure how to advance. Sorry, I might should start a new thread for this. I did not realize until now that it is a separate issue.

[labatts]

Okay, I see from here: https://bytemeta.vip/repo/hhannine/superpaper/issues/103 that the maintainer is aware of the issue and apparently has a fix in the upcoming release.

[hhannine]

Thanks and sorry for the lack of updates. The main branch here at GitHub should be working so you can clone it and install it, and it should be fine. (I think the command should be pip install . --upgrade when ran in the root folder of the repo.

The RGBA issue is fixed in main, system_hotkey needs the user fix. I'll close this since the remaining issue is duplicate of #102.