[Solved] 3Dcoat crashing when trying to open thunar (file explorer) on EndevourOS (arch-derivitive linux distro)
I followed this tutorial on how to install 3D coat on linux and it seemed to work fine until i tried to open one of my 3D models to paint over and it just immediately crashed. Below are my system specs and everything the console says while 3D coat is launched. Thanks for all the help in advance
Setup info (from neofetch):
OS: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64
Kernel: 6.6.7-arch1-1
Uptime: 5 hours, 37 mins
Packages: 1098 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.2.21
Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080
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I had the same problem of 3dcoat crashing immediately after I selected File > Import > Model for per pixel painting, I happen to be running on Fedora 39 and was using the 3dcoat-Ubuntu22.04 binary for 3DCoat-2023.40.
I solved the problem by running 3dcoat in an Ubuntu 22.04 container using distrobox (see https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox ). I expect this will enable 3dcoat to function fine on *any* modern linux distro that supports distrobox. After you've installed distrobox:
