Welcome app: Clicking apps does not do anything

General system Newbie
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Hi @ all,
I am totally new to Linux and EndeavourOS (1 month) and might need some help.

Problem
I am using the welcome app a lot, as it has a lot of references, helpful tools and can manage my updates. However, it seems to step by step break over time. To clarify after install everything just worked fine. I have not done anything crazy beyond choosing a wallpaper, installing neofetch and practicing linux commands (cd, mkdir, rm and such). Now, more and more buttons/apps in the welcome app dont do anything. For example reflector-simple would normally open an console and do some stuff. Now just nothing happens. Same for when I click on the forum, the link does not open (and other apps). While some buttons just work fine and start the app.

System and updates
I am regularly (3 times a week) using “sudo pacman -Syu”. My welcome app is in version 25-1.
Here are some of my system specs:

System 
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Linux x86_64 
Kernel: Linux 6.12.10-arch1-1 
Terminal: konsole 
Shell: bash 5.2.37 
Packages: 1136 (pacman) 

Desktop environment 
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DE: Plasma 6.2.5 
WM: kwin 
Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3] 
Icons: breeze-dark [GTK2/3] 
                           
Hardware 
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Host: ZenBook UX425EA_UX425EA 1.0 
CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-1165G7 (8) @ 4.700GH 
GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphi 
GPU Driver: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1 
Memory: 2.72GiB / 15.32GiB (17%) 
Disk (/): 24G / 451G (6%) 
Battery0: 100% [Full]

Questions

  1. Is this a common issue and I just did not find a solution?
    I know I can update the system using the console, but to me this feels broken and whats broken should be fixed. I also see this as an opportunity to figure out how to approach solving this.

  2. How would I check whats the problem, are there logs or any helper functions I can use?

  3. Is there an order or standard way to “debug” linux stuff?

  4. In windows I would just uninstall and reinstall and all would be good, is that also the linux way?

Thanks for any help/support.

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Rather unusual behavior of Welcome :thinking:
I’ve been running EndeavourOS on two “fresh” computers for the second year. And there are simply no problems with Welcome.

P.S. Maybe this is because if I’m not sure of my actions, I first “train” in a virtual environment.

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Ok, good to know its not a known issue I have missed.
The idea of checking things in a virtual environment sounds smart. However, I literally did nothing to my system. I am new to linux and just looked at stuff e.g. htop, ps, groups, I tried grep, cd, mkdir and so on. I did not alter any configs (besides neofetch) or deleted packages (knowingly).

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Welcome to the forum!

You could start Welcome in a terminal:

eos-welcome -1

and see if there are any messages at start, or when you click the buttons.

Another things is to check that you have the required dependencies:

pacman -Q eos-bash-shared  eos-translations  eos-qogir-icons  yad

or just reinstall package welcome:

sudo pacman -Syu welcome

Which terminal apps do you have installed?