A couple days ago I installed Manjaro KDE on my laptop. Everything works great, except that I installed Emacs from the Software Centre, but when I try to launch it from the application launcher, the Emacs icon briefly appears in the taskbar, but then it removes after about a second or so.
What happens if you try launching it from a terminal window? 
emacs
That should give you some information on why it’s crashing.
When I launch it from the terminal, I get the terminal-based version of Emacs. I’d probably be fine with this if they were equally capable, but I’ve read that the GUI version has more functionality than the TUI version does these days.
If you installed emacsnox, please try running emacsclient and post the output.
That is odd, because it should normally give you the GUI version too if launched from a terminal window, and the text-only mode would then be used in ttys.
Not in my experience, but it’s been a while since I used the GUI version. I never liked its GUI version, and so I’ve got emacs-nox installed these days.
Your mileage may vary, though.
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I’ve read that the GUI version has more functionality than the TUI version does these days.
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Not in my experience, but it’s been a while since I used the GUI version. I never liked its GUI version, and so I’ve gotemacs-noxinstalled these days.
Ah, that was the issue. I thought I installed regular Emacs, but I installed emacs-nox instead because of the icon. Sorry for the obvious mistake. I’ll mark this thread as solved.
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