Hi folks. I have installed Debian 12 bullseye with the lxqt desktop environment. I have run lxqt sessions on it using xfwm4, as well as i3wm, as the window manager. However, for some weird reason brave browser would not launch - neither in xfwm4 nor in i3-wm. So I tried to run the command in the shell to see what output it would produce. I have attached the image which shows the output of the command “brave-browser” in a terminal running the bash shell.

Please help to solve this problem. I love using Firefox but I also love having options and Brave happens to be one of my favourites. (In case, this is relevant, Chromium and Qutebrowser run without any issues. Only Brave is behaving in a weird manner).

EDIT: I have found the solution. One needs to add the flag --disable-features=AllowQt when running it from the command line. However, as I couldn’t get hold of Brave’s config file, I have just added an alias in my bashrc and made changes to brave’s .dekstop file in /usr/share/applications and my i3 config file.

To the folks who posted useless comments instead of actually helping: Thanks for nothing.

  • @Perroboc
    2•1 year ago

    What .deb file? Their page says to add a repo and use apt:

    sudo apt install curl

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser
    • Libre ExtremistOPEnglish
      -2•1 year ago

      My friend, when you install something using the apt package manager you are using a .deb file. It’s something getting downloaded in the background from a server (debian.org or the brave one in this case) without you realising it. Make sense?

      • @Perroboc
        6•1 year ago

        My brother in Christ, installing a .deb is downloading the .deb directly, as you would when downloading discord from discord.com, and you use dpkg to install it (apt uses dpkg to install the deb file).

        You saying “the deb file” is not the same as “using the official repo”, as dependencies might not have been installed by only using the .deb file.

        Make sense?

        • Libre ExtremistOPEnglish
          -2•1 year ago

          “apt uses dpkg to install the deb file” Apt is a frontend for dpkg which needs a .deb file to install stuff. Apt searches for deb files in repos listed in sources.list, downloads them and then uses dpkg for installation.

          • @[email protected]
            1•1 year ago

            yes, but you missed an essential step of the process: apt handles dependencies for you. maybe not in this case, but installing .debs directly requires installing dependencies manually and it’s not uncommon for people to forget about this and then saying that the program does not work.

            installing from an apt repo is always better as long as the repo is trusted (and it should be if you’re installing .debs from it anyway) because it handles dependencies and updates automatically. If you just install the .deb, you’ll have to repeat the process per each update.