App (Shotwell) Behaves Differently When Launched from GNOME Dash Vs Terminal

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When I launch shotwell on the command line (gnome-terminal, tmux, bash), it works fine. But, when I click on the shotwell icon in the GNOME dash/favorites menu, it behaves differently and cannot find my photo library.

It seems like something in my ENV, but I reviewed it pretty thoroughly and I don’t see anything that is obviously related to Shotwell; certainly there are not any Shotwell-specific variables. If it is ENV, it has to be something that affects other things too. But, none of my other dash-launched programs are having trouble, although I rarely use that method for launching, to be fair.

I thought of doing a binary search on the ENV, but it’s really big; that’s not an easy thing to do.

Any thoughts?

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Is it possible you have both the repo package and the flatpak installed? Maybe you are launching the flatpak from dash and the repo package from the command line?

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Doh! yes, that was it.

Upsetting, because I checked in gnome-software. When I right-click and select “show details” in dash, it shows me the RPM version.

Thanks.

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