Pomodorolm won´t open

[DJA89]

🪲 Describe the bug

Downloaded 0.6.1 from App Center on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. Click on icon and it won´t open.

📑 To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to App Center
2. Click on Install
3. Wait for it to install
4. Click on Open within App Center or the icon itself in the applications menu.
5. It won´t open

☑️ Expected behavior

I expect it to open

🖼️ Screenshots

Wish I had any to share

🧑‍💻 Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu
• Version 24.04.2 LTS

⚙️ Additional context

If you need me to check something, tell me and Iĺl do it as soon as I can

🍅 Pomodorolm information

How did you install pomodorolm? Through Ubuntu's app center
What version number are you using? On App Center it says latest/stable 0.6.1

[vjousse]

Hi, thanks for the bug report… but it will be hard to debug without more information.
If you try to launch it using the command line, do you have any error?
Are you using X11 or Wayland? What window manager do you have? Are you using an Nvidia card?

[DJA89]

Launching from command line:

• The help command prints the help
• The cli command prints P - indefinitely

I'm not sure how to make it actually work. I ran
touch ~/.cache/pomodoro_session
and even tried
echo "1 5" > ~/.cache/pomodoro_session
to see if anything happened, but running the cli after that just prints P - non-stop. Maybe there's something I'm not understanding here.

X11 or Wayland:

Wayland

Window manager:

I had to search how to know this, I installed wmctrl and ran
wmctrl -m
which according to their man it's to "Display information about the window manager and the environment.".
Its output is:

Name: GNOME Shell
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: OFF

Is that helpful?

Graphics card:

I ran
lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
and its output is

VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:9a49] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

so my understanding is that I do not in fact have a graphics card.

Anything else I can do to help?

[vjousse]

Hum that’s strange it should be working with this configuration 🤔

What’s the output of pomodorolm without any argument? (it should start the GUI)
What’s the output of cat ~/.config/pomodorolm/config.toml?

[Ilovemyhous]

Hello!
I come to confirm that I also have an issue opening it on Wayland.
I'm using EndeavourOS, which is based on Arch.
The version of Pomodorolm is 0.7.0, and installed the package trough yay (AUR).

GPU info

~> nvidia-smi
Wed Dec  3 08:48:50 2025       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.105.08             Driver Version: 580.105.08     CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  Quadro T2000                   Off |   00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   52C    P3             14W /   60W |    1322MiB /   4096MiB |     28%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

Pomodoro config

~> cat ~/.config/pomodorolm/config.toml
always_on_top = true
auto_start_break_timer = true
auto_start_on_app_startup = false
auto_start_work_timer = true
default_focus_label = "Focus"
default_long_break_label = "Long break"
default_short_break_label = "Short break"
desktop_notifications = true
focus_duration = 1500
long_break_duration = 1200
max_round_number = 4
max_session_duration = 5400
minimize_to_tray = true
minimize_to_tray_on_close = true
muted = false
short_break_duration = 300
start_minimized = false
system_startup_auto_start = false
theme = "pomotroid"
tick_sounds_during_work = true
tick_sounds_during_break = true

Output message when starting Pomodorolm

~> pomodorolm

(pomodorolm:21720): libayatana-appindicator-WARNING **: 08:49:07.560: libayatana-appindicator is deprecated. Please use libayatana-appindicator-glib in newly written code.
Gdk-Message: 08:49:08.121: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.

[vjousse]

I think this is the same problem than the one documented in the README https://github.com/vjousse/pomodorolm?tab=readme-ov-file#error-71-protocol-error-dispatching-to-wayland-display

Could you try the suggested fix?

[Ilovemyhous]

That worked, thanks!
Seems like a similar issue I have with OrcaSlicer, which also uses WebKit if I'm not wrong. Though it (OrcaSlicer) works fine on a laptop with AMD (iGPU) and Nvidia card, haven't tried Pomodorolm on said laptop yet though.