OpenDeck Blank Screen

[native yoke]

I just installed OpenDeck on a fresh installation of CachyOS and the OpenDeck GUI is just white. The AppIcon is there, just the app therein is not.

In terms of logs, i dont really know how to get to the logs without having a way to get to the settings.

[hardy bolt]

How did you install Opendeck?
What system are you using?

Logs are located at ~/.local/share/opendeck if I am not mistaken. Unless you installed the Flatpak.

[native yoke]

I downloaded the ARM AppImage and installed it with shelly

[hardy bolt]

Also the opendeck logs are shown in the terminal if started via the opendeck command.

[native yoke]

System as in the hardware?

[hardy bolt]

OS.

[native yoke]

CachyOS

[hardy bolt]

Not sure about ARM, but in general, the OpenDeck AppImage is not recommended. It has lots of issues and is more there as a last resort.

[hardy bolt]

Wayland or X11?

What desktop? Seems like KDE?

[native yoke]

KDE Plasma

Forgive me, i am just trying linux for the first time today

[hardy bolt]

No worries.

[native yoke]

So wayland or x11 means nothing to me unfortunately

[hardy bolt]

Please tell me the putput of echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

[native yoke]

wayland

[hardy bolt]

Did you get a chance to look at the logs?

[native yoke]

[2026-05-02][16:38:10][opendeck::events][DEBUG] Registered plugin com.amansprojects.starterpack.sdPlugin
[2026-05-02][16:43:41][opendeck::plugins][DEBUG] Using ports 57116 and 57118
[2026-05-02][16:43:41][opendeck::events][DEBUG] Registered plugin com.amansprojects.starterpack.sdPlugin

[raven phoenix]

AppImage problems, please use the AUR

[hardy bolt]

Can ypu confirm that it only is running once?

You can use ps ax | grep opendeck to find out

[hardy bolt]

AUR doesn't build the arm version

[raven phoenix]

it is as it's using 57116 and not 57117

[hardy bolt]

I will have a look at this tho.

[raven phoenix]

multiple instances shouldn't cause that anyway

[raven phoenix]

oh

why not, it builds locally right?

[native yoke]

   4490 ?        Ssl    0:00 /opt/shelly/opendeck_2.11.1_amd64.AppImage
   4588 ?        Sl     0:00 /home/jprugel/.config/opendeck/plugins/com.amansprojects.starterpack.sdPlugin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/opendeck-starterpack -port 57116 -pluginUUID com.amansprojects.starterpack.sdPlugin -registerEvent registerPlugin -info {"application":{"font":"ui-sans-serif","language":"en","platform":"linux","platformVersion":"Rolling Release","version":"7.1.0"},"plugin":{"uuid":"com.amansprojects.starterpack.sdPlugin","version":"2.11.1"},"devicePixelRatio":0,"colors":{"buttonPressedBackgroundColor":"#303030FF","buttonPressedBorderColor":"#646464FF","buttonPressedTextColor":"#969696FF","disabledColor":"#F7821B59","highlightColor":"#F7821BFF","mouseDownColor":"#CF6304FF"},"devices":[]}
   6403 ?        S<sl   0:00 /usr/bin/kate -b /home/jprugel/.local/share/opendeck/logs/opendeck.log
   6458 pts/0    S<+    0:00 grep --color=auto opendeck```

[raven phoenix]

opendeck-git i mean not opendeck

[native yoke]

When i checked the AUR first I didnt find it

oh im dumb

This was dumb

Ignore me

[hardy bolt]

I need to check, but i think it needs to explicitly allow arm.

[native yoke]

wait nevermind im fine

it still doesnt work

i thought i installed arm

but i installed amd which is correct

[native yoke]

I dont need arm, i need amd

[hardy bolt]

Ok. Then all 3 opendeck packages from the aur are preferred on Arch.

[native yoke]

Which one should i use

does it not matter?

[hardy bolt]

I recommend using either opendeck or opendeck-bin. These two are the stable version. One uses the binary from github, the other builds on your system. It doesn't matter functionality wise tho

[native yoke]

Understood, i will try

[native yoke]

It is still just white

even after installoing from AUR

[hardy bolt]

Shows that opendeck is running two times if I didn't misreaf it on my phone. The formatting is a bit problematic on the mobile view.

[raven phoenix]

Are you actually on ARM?

What is your computer

[hardy bolt]

Whats the output of lscpu | grep Architecture

[native yoke]

I am not on ARM, as I said, I’m on AMD

I ran an X86 version either way

[raven phoenix]

sorry, didnt see, it's because you said you downloaded the arm appimage

[native yoke]

Yeah, my fault

i meant amd

[raven phoenix]

please try to delete the appimage, restart your computer and launch from the AUR

[native yoke]

I did this

[raven phoenix]

could you run /bin/opendeck from terminal?

[raven phoenix]

try killall opendeck then run it again

it looks like the AppImage is still running

[native yoke]

i uninstalled it though, how is it still there

that worked btw

[raven phoenix]

did you quit it properly? that's why i said to restart the computer

[native yoke]

i did yes

[raven phoenix]

if you use something like gear lever or applever then the appimage might be in your menu even if you removed the file

[native yoke]

now it works properly