Why won't the desktop app start on Linux?

It’s already running

Closing Bramble’s window doesn’t quit it: it keeps running in the system tray. If you start it again while it’s running, no window opens. Run from a terminal, it prints HotKey already registered.

• To get the window back, click the Bramble icon in the tray and choose Open Bramble.
• To quit, choose Quit Bramble from the same menu, or press Ctrl Q in Bramble’s window.
• Can’t see a tray icon? Quit Bramble from a terminal with pkill bramble-desktop, then start it again.

The AppImage freezes when you create a vault

On Fedora and other recent distributions, AppImages older than version 0.16.0 freeze or turn white as soon as they draw an emoji, which first happens on the screen where you create your vault. Run from a terminal, they print stack smashing detected.

Version 0.16.0 fixes this. Download the latest AppImage from bramble.sh.

Still not working?

• Make sure the AppImage is executable: chmod +x Bramble_*.AppImage.
• On Fedora, try the .rpm instead, and on Debian or Ubuntu the APT package. They use your system’s own web engine rather than the one the AppImage carries. See Install the desktop app.
• On a laptop with two graphics cards, the first click can freeze the screen for a few seconds while the second card wakes up. It happens once. Starting Bramble with WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 avoids it.