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Hi folks. I have installed Debian 12 bullseye with the lxqt desktop environment. I have run lxqt sessions on it using xfwm4, as well as i3wm, as the window manager. However, for some weird reason brave browser would not launch - neither in xfwm4 nor in i3-wm. So I tried to run the command in the shell to see what output it would produce. I have attached the image which shows the output of the command "brave-browser" in a terminal running the bash shell.

Please help to solve this problem. I love using Firefox but I also love having options and Brave happens to be one of my favourites. (In case, this is relevant, Chromium and Qutebrowser run without any issues. Only Brave is behaving in a weird manner).

EDIT: I have found the solution. One needs to add the flag --disable-features=AllowQt when running it from the command line. However, as I couldn't get hold of Brave's config file, I have just added an alias in my bashrc and made changes to brave's .dekstop file in /usr/share/applications and my i3 config file.

To the folks who posted useless comments instead of actually helping: Thanks for nothing.

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[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't like to leave problems unsolved. Secondly, brave comes with default adblocker. What better FOSS chromium alternatives are there?

[–] tutus@links.hackliberty.org 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ungoogled Chromium, Iridium, Vivaldi.

Note I don't use any of them (I use Firefox) but I know they exist.

[–] Kristof12@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Vivaldi is proprietary kek; and I use brave natively on debian, works nice for me

[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml -5 points 9 months ago

Ungoogled Chromium, Chromium and Brave are not verified on flathub. I already have regular Chromium, so I can't install the ungoogled fork as they conflict with each other.