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  1. Minecraft Launcher
  2. MCL-14499

Launcher failing dependency without warning on Linux

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    • 2.1.15166
    • Minecraft Launcher
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    • Fedora 30, Gnome on Wayland and X11 (tested both), openjdk 1.8.0_252, minecraft-launcher for generic linux downloaded at minecraft.net
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      Issue

      Ran "minecraft-launcher" binary on the terminal and it immediately returned without printing anything or showing anything on screen.

      I searched the internet for some minutes and encountered someone saying that it was a missing library (libXScrnSaver on fedora). Don't know how this guy knew it was this exacly library it was missing because my launcher said nothing.

      I am using Fedora 30 (tested Gnome on X11 and on Wayland) on an old pc at my mother's. I installed OpenJDK 1.8, downloaded and extracted the most recent minecraft-launcher for generic linux on minecraft.net website.

      Steps to reproduce:

      1. Open terminal on the extracted minecraft-launcher folder

      2. Execute minecraft-launcher binary

      3. It automatically closes without any information:

      $ ./minecraft-launcher

      $

      What I expected

      Any visual indication that something (with a name, such as libxscrnsaver or a file name that I can search on fedora's packages) is missing if it is absolutely necessary. If it isn't, I expected the launcher to work normally without this dependency.

       

      I did not find anything about dependencies here on bugs.mojang.com, hopefully this is not a duplicate. Thank you!

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            rafaelsms Rafael S. M. S.
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