Solaar GUI options

Bluefin
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Hello there!

I’m using Solaar with the Gnome extension + flatpak. One annoyance I have with it is that it starts with the GUI window open on login, instead of going right to the menu icon. No worries, I thought, I just have to locate the .desktop file, copy it into ~/.local/share/applications and add -- -w hide to its exec command.

But it looks like the GUI options are not available in the Flatpak solaar at all, and it refuses to run with

usage: solaar {show,probe,profiles,config,pair,unpair} ...
solaar: error: argument {show,probe,profiles,config,pair,unpair}: invalid choice: '--window' (choose from show, probe, profiles, config, pair, unpair)

In Instalar Solaar en Linux | Flathub it says:

Solaar’s GUI normally uses an icon in the system tray and starts with its main window visible.

But no instructions on how to change that.

Has anybody worked around this?

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(Your post looks like some of it was not shown correctly.)
The option --window=hide on the exec line should work.
While it’s not shown in the error message you posted, it is shown in the docs.

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Thanks for the help!

The option doesn’t work for me in Flatpak, though, unless I’m passing the arguments wrong…

$ /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=solaar io.github.pwr_solaar.solaar -- --window=hide

rules cannot access modifier keys in Wayland, accessing process only works on GNOME with Solaar Gnome extension installed
usage: solaar {show,probe,profiles,config,pair,unpair} ...
solaar: error: argument {show,probe,profiles,config,pair,unpair}: invalid choice: '--window=hide' (choose from show, probe, profiles, config, pair, unpair)
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Hm. That’s strange.
I would try
--command=“solaar --window=hide”

And also try adding --window=hide to the exec line in the desktop file, and running it from the gui, or log out and back in.

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Ha, that’s funny. Those two are exactly what I tried first. :slight_smile:

Adding arguments to the --command is supposedly wrong syntax. But adding it to the exec file gives the same error as the flatpak command I shared, which I used to make sure it wasn’t me botching the desktop file.

Anyway, even without this problem, I’m finding Solaar terribly unreliable. I cannot get it to detect my bluetooth Mx Master 3 more than one in every five times, and the wired Logi keyboard even less than that. If I could find a wireless mouse with ZMK support, I’d change in a heartbeat.

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My MX Master works fine on regular Bluetooth, but I’m not doing anything fancy.

Well, except for natural scrolling. (Why would unnatural scrolling be the default :joy:)

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Copy .desktop to /var/home/USER/.config/autostart
Edit Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=solaar io.github.pwr_solaar.solaar --window=hide

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