When use the icon launcher directly it crashes after a few minutes, experineced the same problem with Brave Browser installed using gnome software
You say in the title that “Freetube can only be opened via the Software manager” but in the topic content you imply it opens but crashes after a few minutes.
I’ll assume the title is incorrect and that Freetube can be opened without any issues from the launcher but crashes.
I’ve had it running here for 15 minutes now, playing 3 different videos, and it’s not exhibited any issue thus far, so I strongly doubt it’s a bug in Freetube.
What do you have in the journalctl output for Freetube when it crashes? Please post as pre-formatted text.
please reply with specific commands I used use to log journalctl output
Replicate the failure of FreeTube and once it’s crashed run journalctl -b 0 -g freetube --no-hostname --no-pager
Post output here as pre-formatted text, otherwise it looks like crap when anyone quotes it.
May 19 08:53:16 systemd[1861]: Started app-gnome-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-5483.scope - Application launched by gnome-shell.
May 19 08:53:16 systemd[1861]: Started app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-2775149727.scope.
May 19 08:53:17 systemd[1861]: Started app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-1221659169.scope.
May 19 08:53:26 systemd[1861]: app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-1221659169.scope: Consumed 2.161s CPU time, 98.9M memory peak.
May 19 08:53:26 systemd[1861]: app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-2775149727.scope: Consumed 3.684s CPU time, 674.7M memory peak.
May 19 12:53:13 systemd[1861]: Started app-gnome-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-11745.scope - Application launched by gnome-shell.
May 19 12:53:13 systemd[1861]: Started app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-2468294078.scope.
May 19 12:53:16 systemd[1861]: Started app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-441098934.scope.
May 19 12:53:23 systemd[1861]: app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-441098934.scope: Consumed 2.270s CPU time, 94M memory peak.
May 19 12:53:23 systemd[1861]: app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-2468294078.scope: Consumed 5.080s CPU time, 782.6M memory peak.
May 19 13:05:20 systemd[1861]: Started app-gnome-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-12458.scope - Application launched by gnome-shell.
May 19 13:05:20 systemd[1861]: Started app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-1530301797.scope.
May 19 13:05:21 systemd[1861]: Started app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-1279916347.scope.
May 19 13:05:30 systemd[1861]: app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-1279916347.scope: Consumed 2.063s CPU time, 97.8M memory peak.
May 19 13:05:30 systemd[1861]: app-flatpak-io.freetubeapp.FreeTube-1530301797.scope: Consumed 4.369s CPU time, 764.4M memory peak, 4M memory swap peak.
I see no crash details or even any evidence that it crashed at all. I presume this is a Flatpak problem then, and I know bugger all about flatpaks.
Nope - the red part is just because it specifically matched the search parameter in the journalctl command.
The other lines (such as those containing “FreeTube”) are picked because I elected to use a case-insensitive search. However, they don’t get coloured red, because they don’t specifically match the search query.
What you see there are all lines that have “freetube” in them, regardless of case. I was hoping to see crash details and a backtrace, but there appears to be none to be found.
You could try editing the Freetube entry in the launcher, copying out the program and command line arguments and running it from the command line to see if you get any output when it fails. It’ll be something akin to
┌─🎩 lurcher /usr/bin🔒
├─via 🐍 v3.14.4
└─➜ flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/run.sh --file-forwarding io.freetubeapp.FreeTube @@u %u @@ ⏱️ 16s 11:21 Tue 19-May
You’ll get a load of output about connecting to Dbus and so on, but the application should start. When it falls over hopefully you’ll get the cause of the failure spat out into the terminal.
This isn’t the solution to your flatpak issues (assuming the issues are because of flatpak).
Both Brave browser and Freetube have rpm’s.
Brave you install like said in Installing Brave on Linux | Brave and it will set up its own repo.
Freetube you download the rpm from FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client and it notifies whenever there is a new version released. Someone even set up a copr repo for it too, but downloading from Freetube themselves is very simple.