Pop-shell Launcher not working F39 Gnome

Fresh install F39

Installed pop-shell using :

sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell

launcher does not work as expected. Shortcut "Super / " opens launcher, but no applications appear. Launcher doesn’t show anything, it only shows the search bar.

Expected behavior:
Applications, running applications, etc… are shown and can be searched through / executed.

Version installed
1.2.0^21.aafc945-1.fc39

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According to the package’s github page, you need to install xprop along with gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell.

xprop installed on f39…

$ sudo dnf install xprop
Last metadata expiration check: 3:40:02 ago on Wed 10 Jan 2024 06:24:14 AM SAST.
Package xprop-1.2.5-4.fc39.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

Welcome to Fedora @hoosain.

Other topics show that they had problems using the extension while upgrading from F38. Did you also upgrade?

In the “Settings” under “Search”, you can make some adjustments. Did you see this?

Hello L.S

I did a fresh install of f39.

I don’t see anything relevant to my issue in “Settings”->“Search”.

I am experiencing the same issue. I am also using a fresh install of fedora 39

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good to know I am not the only one. thanks for the feedback.

@vonmorgen & @hoosain Have you all considered filing a bug on the Projects Github?

Search results have always been provided by pop-launcher. The pop-shell extension only provides a GUI frontend for the pop-launcher. Fedora does not seem to package pop-launcher, so you will need to manually install it.

This is also a dependency of cosmic-launcher, which is the COSMIC GUI frontend for pop-launcher.

Here’s what worked for me:

  1. Clone and cd into the repository.

  2. sudo dnf install just cargo mesa-libGL-devel libxkbcommon-devel

  3. just build-release

  4. just install

  5. sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/pop-launcher /usr/local/bin/pop-launcher

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Thanks @ethanbowering24 - this has resolved my issue.