Hello folks,
for your information, the Tuxedo Control Center currently only starts cleanly under X11 with Manjaro-KDE.
If you want to use it with Wayland, you will be asked for remote control access.
The subsequent installation of “libappindicator-gtk3” solves this problem.
There is also a similar problem with CachyOS.
Tested on my Tuxedo Gemini 17 - Gen 2
Greetings Thomas
THX a lot for the Tipp
that saves my notebook
FYI, libappindicator-gtk3 is deprecated.
❯ pacman -Sii tuxedo-control-center | grep 'Optional Deps'
Optional Deps : libayatana-appindicator: tray icon
“libayatana-appindicator” was previously installed but did not solve the problem with Wayland. Only after installing “libappindicator-gtk3” the problem was solved.
Laptop-details:
Host: TUXEDO Gemini Gen2
Kernel: Linux 6.12.28-1-MANJARO
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900HX (32) @ 5.40 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete]
GPU 2: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics @ 1.65 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 4.79 GiB / 62.50 GiB (8%)
Swap: Disabled
Disk (/): 51.98 GiB / 931.22 GiB (6%) - btrfs
Well, then that’s an upstream issue. They claimed to have switched to Ayatana Indicators three years ago and also include the dependency in the DEB on Tuxedo OS.
In general, I’ve often seen programs look for both. They’ll use Ayatana by default and fall back to Libappindicator.
I and others have not had this problem for long, see link → AUR (en) - tuxedo-control-center-bin
Using my Manjaro test laptop - Tuxedo InfinitiBookPro14 8.gen. (i7-13700H - no Nvidia).
Preparation - download the latest developer image to a ventoy disk
get-iso plasma --preview
ISO: manjaro-kde-dev-25.06-development-unstable-minimal-250606-linux612.iso
Booted the laptop and did a clean install using the developer preview of Manjaro Plasma and logged in using Wayland.
I then proceeded to install tuxedo-control-center from Manjaro repo
sudo pacman -Syu tuxedo-control-center
Following the install a full restart - ensuring that all required drivers would be loaded - and launched Tuxedo Control Center from the launcher - this is required for first time.
The application start as expected - thus I could not reproduce using Wayland
No weird questions about remote control access
I did several restarts to test if the application would fail - it does not.
I am not saying you don’t have an issue - but it will be difficult to assess what is causing it on your system - when the issue cannot be reproduced on a random Tuxedo laptop.
//EDIT: 2025-06-06T05:34:00Z
After some reboots without issues - I made a full power down.
Starting the laptop - and accessing the Tuxedo Control Center ask for permission to control input devices.
I don’t think it is an issue more an annoyance - most likely caused by the higher security when using Wayland compared to X11.
I did some experimenting based on the popup asking for permissions. I am guessing there has been done some tightening of the permissions allowed by default for an application designed for X11.
Even though I altered the permissions beyond the recommended and heeded a warning about possible malicious activity - I couldn’t remove the popup.
From my testing it seems to be - as @Yochanan also pointed to - an upstream issue. I could not immediately locate any issues relating to this - but you should feel free to create one.