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[solved] St3 doesn't launch from the command line

#1

sublime text launches with the launcher, but it doesn’t launch from the terminal with subl, running subl from bash console does nothing.

environment

Distributor ID: Pop
Description:  Pop!_OS 20.10
Release:  20.10
Codename: groovy

troubleshooting

  • installation is mangled, you can find in two locations:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67 Oct  1  2019 /usr/bin/subl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8803928 Oct  1  2019 /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text
  • it’s in path:
user@os:~$ which subl 
/usr/bin/subl
user@os:~$ subl --version
Sublime Text Build 3211
user@os:~$ /usr/bin/subl --version
Sublime Text Build 3211
user@os:~$ /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --version
Sublime Text Build 3211
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#2

wait, it’s not mangled. ST is installed under /opt, as always. Shouldn’t /usr/bin/subl be a symlink, though?

figured out the cause of this:

i added a new group and assigned to user (mpass)
in the shell i log-in as user to apply changes
in the new shell i launch subl and it doesn’t start

user@os:~$ groups
user adm vboxusers docker dev
user@os:~$ su - $USER
Password: 
user@os:~$ groups
user adm vboxusers docker dev mpass
user@os:~$ subl

that’s weird, i guess i need to log out and back in after all ¯(ツ)/¯

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