Rofi key shortuct immediately closes

[JRandomHacker]

I can open the Rofi side-menu by clicking the top-left icon (though I can't type anything to search...), but if I open it via cmd+e, it instantly opens and closes. All configs are unmodified.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[PapyElGringo]

Is that the command _G.screen.primary.left_panel:toggle(true) who open/close or the shortcut?

[omark96]

Hello, I have the same issue. When installing it on a fresh Arch VM the Rofi side menu would just close as soon as I pressed in the search bar or if I pressed mod+E it would open and then instantly close. I decided to give it a try with a Manjaro installation with Awesome. Same problem, however, this time I got the following error:
Failed to execute: 'rofind'
Error: 'Failed to execute child process "rofind" (No such file or directory)

A "workaround" to be able to at least use rofi is to change rofind to rofi in the ~/config/rofi/config.rasi file, however this breaks the design.

EDIT:
I just tried to install rofi-scripts and it seem to have solved that issue, I no longer get an error about rofind. But the design is still broken for me in the Manjaro installation (Probably an unrelated issue and I'm gonna give it a try in a fresh Arch installation tomorrow).

[PapyElGringo]

Can you try to start Rofi directly from a terminal?
rofi -show drun -theme ~/.config/awesome/configuration/rofi.rasi

[omark96]

I reinstalled Arch and managed to get it working. I'm not entirely sure what I did differently, but I think I might have forgotten to install xorg-apps on my first attempt. However, the performance was horrible, but at least everything was working this time. (I'm pretty sure the performance part is because of a driver issue). I might give it another go in the future.

[PapyElGringo]

You can try without Compton to check the performance Le ven. 3 mai 2019 à 16:35, omark96 <[email protected]> a écrit :

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I reinstalled Arch and managed to get it working. I'm not entirely sure what I did differently, but I think I might have forgotten to install xorg-apps on my first attempt. However, the performance was horrible, but at least everything was working this time. (I'm pretty sure the performance part is because of a driver issue). I might give it another go in the future. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#35 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AA4UWSOSL5ULGJLHY6ZWJCDPTRESJANCNFSM4HHM2VXQ> .

[Sil3ntLight]

I had the same issue, then found that running rofi -show drun gives a warning about "failed to set Locale". Make sure you uncomment your locale (i.e. en_US.UTF-8) in /etc/locale.gen.
Then run locale-gen

If it still gives the same error, make sure to set your locale variables (LANG and LANGUAGE) in /etc/locale.conf or by running:
localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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