pi-apps won't launch about pi-apps HOT 8 CLOSED

Please test on a fresh piOS image and report back (image dated December 11th 2023) https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/
Since your install is unable to run applications through xwayland it seems, you likely have removed critical packages in the OS or have corruption on your install.

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Are you running this command in the console, or with ssh or something?
It looks like something with your display or screen is the cause of the problems.

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After installation I first tried to run from the Desktop using the launch icon.

When the GUI didn't come up, I started from the shell to see if any errors would appear, with the results posted above.

So while I agree the error points at display/screen there seems to be also unrelated shell parsing errors.

I did try to set $DISPLAY=:0.0 manually to but it didn't help.

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Yeah you would get similar display-related errors from trying to run any GUI program in the shell.
Try opening a terminal within your desktop environment and run pi-apps in there. That should help show a bit more of what is going on here.

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that's what i did, i started pi-apps in a terminal within the desktop environment. i thought that's what you meant by shell.

i don't have any problems starting any other GUI application that way (i tried e.g. a webbrowser to check), only pi-apps.

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since the last pi-apps update it works. i didn't investigate further what changed. i didn't change anything in my system (no packages removed, added or updated)
thanks

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Let us know if the problem happens again.

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