Simplenote in Debian 12 Bookworm

[bonushenricus]

Expected

resolve a run problem in debian 12 amd64

Observed

the Simplenote desktop software had a problem

Reproduced

/opt/Simplenote/simplenote
in terminal done this
[24795:0628/193716.000734:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(415)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.

Where did you see the bug

• System Make:
• System Model:
• OS: DEBIAN
• OS version: 12
• Simplenote app version: 2.21.0

[1majom]

For anyone else having this problem adding the --in-process-gpu switch helped. Got the idea from this Stackoverflow answer.

[rcentros]

That fixed it for me in the terminal. Couldn't get it to work when adding --in-process-gpu to the Menu entry however -- so I couldn't move it to my Panel. But I found a workaround. I just made a small bash script named "simple"...
#!/bash/bin
/opt/Simplenote/simplenote --in-process-gpu &
exit
Make the shell script executable then run it from the terminal as "source simple" or ". ./simple" and it will close the terminal once Simplenote is up and running.
You can also use the shell script to create a Launcher on the Desktop or in the Menu. I'm using Cinnamon and built mine in the Menu. Just added this to the Launcer's command line... /home/my myusername/simple. Add the Simplenote icon and copy to the Cinnamon Panel by pressing the Control+Alt keys and dragging it there.
So far working without issue.

[philipjohn]

@rcentros ' suggestion worked for me on Pop!_OS with one small change to the hashbang:

#!/bin/bash
/opt/Simplenote/simplenote --in-process-gpu &
exit

[victe]

In gnome-destop you can edit /usr/share/applications/simplenote.desktop by adding --in-process-gpu or --disable-gpu-sandbox to the Exec entry before %U.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Simplenote
Exec=/opt/Simplenote/simplenote --in-process-gpu %U
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=simplenote