UI stopped working

[banks047]

Hi there. I'd like to report an issue.
I'm having an issue where the app stopped loading ui. It used to work on first run and now it does not, but even though it doesn't show ui, music starts playing in the background. I've tried AppImage and rpm versions and they behave exactly the same
I'm using Fedora 35 Workstation and here's the log from terminal:

Per this log, there doesn't seem to be any error when launching. Please let me know which information do you need so we can troubleshoot this.
Thanks in advance!

EDIT: App version 1.15.0

[Araxeus]

Hey this is probably because your window position is offscreen
(was already fixed in #548 and will be included in next release)

meanwhile to fix it you can:
open config.json and change window position to be like (0,0)

config.json folder path:

• Windows: %AppData%/Youtube Music (MyUser/AppData/Roaming/Youtube Music)
• Linux: ~/.config/Youtube Music
• MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/YouTube\ Music/config.json

[banks047]

Hi, thanks for fast response!
I've tried to change the window position to (0,0) but it still behaved exactly the same :/
I wasn't aware that commit #548 was not included in 1.15 release, i'll try building a more recent version and see how it goes.
PS. I'm using dual monitor setup

[Araxeus]

could be maybe related to the error you seem to get APPIMAGE env not defined. current application is not an AppImage

not sure how to fix that error, dont know where is it even coming from..

could maybe be coming from the Auto-update option, could you try disabling that and see if it changes something?

[banks047]

I've wiped the config files from ~/.config/Youtube Music and it started working again. config.json doesn't seem to be much different (other than appVisible being true in working version and false in not working but changing true to false in the working version doesn't do anything) so i think that the culprit is among other files. I'll investigate further and let you know my findings.

Scrap everything i've said - it seems that i've somehow enabled Tray > Enabled + App Hidden and that this behaviour was intentional. Maybe it would be good to somehow either hide this option if the platform is Linux (not sure how it behaves on macOS or Windows) because it seems to be broken and irreversible without wiping the config files

EDIT: Not broken, this seems to be a problem only on recent versions of GNOME desktop environment because it doesn't come with tray icons support (at least on my current Fedora install). I've enabled the AppIndicator extension and the behaviour is now as expected. Sorry for the misunderstanding and i hope this solution helps someone.

[Araxeus]

Good catch!

obviously not a good idea to set the app as tray only when you dont have a tray 😅

[banks047]

I agree!
It's really worrying that this happens, considering GNOME is the main desktop environment on the most popular Linux distros. I guess we can't do anything about that, but add a disclaimer and a workaround somewhere in README

[piezza]

I am not sure if this is same root cause but I have similar problem under Windows 11 that UI is not shown with newest version and App runs in background playing music and I need to stop over task manager.
With v1.20.0 everything works fine, starting with v2.0.0 I have this issue. Also removing %AppData%/Youtube Music does not fix this.

[JellyBrick]

I am not sure if this is same root cause but I have similar problem under Windows 11 that UI is not shown with newest version and App runs in background playing music and I need to stop over task manager. With v1.20.0 everything works fine, starting with v2.0.0 I have this issue. Also removing %AppData%/Youtube Music does not fix this.

That issue is being tracked in #1273.

[JellyBrick]

Fixed due to electron/electron#23926, and electron/electron#36333