KeyError: 'XDG_DATA_HOME' about frog HOT 10 CLOSED

The error is quite descriptive itself: your system doesn't provide the required environment variable - XDG_DATA_HOME.
The Frog implies having access to this var because of https://docs.flatpak.org/es/latest/conventions.html#xdg-base-directories.

You could try to put it in your profile to make Frog work properly.

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Ah, turns out user directory variables are not set by default. I added them to my ~/.profile.

❯ echo $XDG_DATA_HOME
/home/yochanan/.local/share

However, I'm receiving the exact same error.

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If I run XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share/" frog, I'm getting somewhere. However, it can't find eng.traineddata because it's looking in /app/share/appdata/ instead of /usr/share/appdata/ or /usr/share/tessdata/. It seems to be hardcoded in language_manager.py.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/frog", line 52, in <module>
    sys.exit(main.main(VERSION))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/frog/main.py", line 121, in main
    app = Application()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/frog/main.py", line 61, in __init__
    language_manager.init_tessdata()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/frog/language_manager.py", line 163, in init_tessdata
    copyfile(source_path, dest_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/shutil.py", line 264, in copyfile
    with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/app/share/appdata/eng.traineddata'

It appears it's trying to copy eng.traineddata from /usr/share/appdata/ to ~/.local/share/tessdata/. I copied it there manually and the application runs.

However, selecting Grab the area closes the window and does not allow me to select anything.

(frog:616852): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 12:27:10.731: gtk_bin_remove: assertion 'priv->child == child' failed
Cache downloaded codes, ['eng']
ERROR: g-dbus-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: SelectArea is not allowed (9)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/frog/window.py", line 221, in on_shot_error
    self.on_screenshot_error(error)
TypeError: on_screenshot_error() missing 1 required positional argument: 'error'

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Soon I'll release new version to Flathub. It won't require access to the home folder and also use libportal to take screenshots. I'm not the user of Manjaro but hope it will help.

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Sounds good. 👍

Technically, my issue has nothing to do with Manjaro or any other distribution. The point is, it isn't currently compatible with installing from source code using sane specifications and guidelines.

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Ah, that's true. I designed it specifically for elementary OS and have no thought on support the other distros. But the time has come and the Frog is moving towards any compatible (I mean with Screenshot Portal) distro.

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It's working now with the latest commit with a couple workarounds. Here's my PKGBUILD.

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FYI, I've added it to the AUR as frog-ocr and let users know they need to set the XDG_DATA_HOME variable.

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Actually, Frog doesn't use XDG_DATA_HOME since 1.0 so doesn't need that notice :)

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What do you mean? If ~/.local/share/tessdata/eng.traineddata does not exist it's created on launch. Without the variable set, it can't find where to create it.

Not sure why it needs to do that at all as it's in /usr/share/tessdata/ as part of tesseract-data-eng.

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