EOS Welcome | YAD | Tools appears to be starting every boot since last update on July 15, 2026

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Hi,

I was wondering if it is a known bug with YAD that it is now starting every reboot after the July 15, 2026 update?

I was looking at the code change here:

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@dalto

New bug opened here: https://github.com/endeavouros-team/welcome/issues/8

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I have also run across a minor bug in Welcome v26.7.1-1 This problem appears with both x86_64 and aarch64 devices using EnOS, KDE Plasma,and Wayland.

I have the Welcome icon on my panel, but welcome v26.7.1-1 does not use the proper welcome icon.

panel-with-Welcome-icon
panel-with-Welcome-icon371Ă—113 20.8 KB

When welcome is launched, it shows the wrong icon then the proper icon.

welcome active
welcome active416Ă—111 24.2 KB

@manuel If you have any questions, let me know.

Pudge

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Thanks for confirming. I put this in my bug notes too. This should have been caught in testing before release.

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Yeah I noticed this issue as well with always popping up on boot, even if you try to disable it. So I just uninstalled it since I never really used it after the first week I installed endeavourOS :purple_heart:

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Thanks for the report!
I’ll look into it as soon as possible.
Likely it is a .desktop file issue in autostart.

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Think I might have found why this happens, I compaired the contents of the /etc/xdg/autostart/welcome.desktop in plasma with the one I have in XFCE (which was not updated yet) and saw that the line Exec=eos-welcome --once was commented out in the Xfce file and not in the Plasma file , so commenting out the line in the Plasma file seems to have solved the problem.

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In LXQT the line was not commented out however deleting the file sorted the issue.

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As a (temporary?) solution you might want to edit this file /usr/share/applications/welcome.desktop
And where it says Icon=/usr/share/endeavouros/endeavouros-icon.avif remove the .avif part.

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What process do we follow when we change the EndeavourOS tools? Seem to be a non critical change which should have a testing branch.

Personally I really like the Welcome app. It makes it easier to help guide less technical people on basic maintenance.

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Thanks everyone for your input. @keescase @thefrog @manuel

There appears to be two welcome.desktop files in the system:

  • /etc/xdg/autostart/welcome.desktop
  • /usr/share/applications/welcome.desktop

Maybe one of these should be a softlink to the other?

The file “/usr/share/endeavouros/endeavouros-icon.avif” does not exist. So this needs to be pushed in the next update.

To stop the Welcome application from auto launching + correct the icon I updated the code at /etc/xdg/autostart/welcome.desktop and then copied it to /usr/share/applications/welcome.desktop to sync up the two files.

** /etc/xdg/autostart/welcome.desktop :**

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Welcome
Comment=EndeavourOS Welcome launcher
Comment[fi]=EndeavourOS:n Welcome-ohjelman käynnistin
Comment[sk]=Spúšťač privítania v systéme EndeavourOS
# Exec=eos-welcome --once
Icon=/usr/share/endeavouros/endeavouros-icon.png
# Icon=/usr/share/endeavouros/endeavouros-icon.avif
# StartupNotify=false
# Terminal=False
Hidden=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
X-KDE-autostart-after=panel
Categories=System
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Thanks for the input guys!

Just fixed the autostart issue (in welcome 26.7.2-1), hope it works again as expected.

The icon issue may need more research, please test and report! :smiley:

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Updated and rebooted. Issue is fixed here. Thanks, @manuel!