In a new VM of 15.10, I installed Synapse via Welcome. (I think this uses a PPA.)
I can launch Synapse, but as soon as I type anything it crashes. Anyone else seeing this?
yes!
can’t type anything into it. just crash
PS did you manage to get the panel-dock-applet to work?
I was just trying that again, but no luck, even after installing the package the developer suggested in the Github issue. I still need to try running via the terminal as they suggested to see if there are any error messages.
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The Dock Applet author replied with new instructions before I was able to post. I will give it a go this weekend.
An updated post in the launcher thread led me to try Albert again. I had liked it when I first tried it, but it needed more development.
There has been a lot more development now, and the Github readme has also been updated to list the Ubuntu dependencies – most of these packages have very different Debian/Ubuntu names – so it’s easy to try the latest version instead of waiting for the Webupd8 PPA.
I have only used it for a few minutes, but I prefer it to Synapse, even when it is working. 
thanks
i’ve tried the new instructions for the dock applet and am pleased to report that it seems to work fine. 
i’ll also have a look at the new albert - like yourself, I tried it a coupla months ago, and thought that it wasn’t quite there yet
I tested Synapse on Ubuntu MATE 15.10 daily last night, from the PPA and official archive. Both segfault. I’ve sent a crash report that got discarded because the issue was detected as a duplicate of a private bug 
I contacted the Synapse developer, but I don’t expect this to get fixed in this for 15.10 
I decided to give Albert a test and ended up making a PPA for it
Just disable the Files plugin, that is causing Albert to regularly segfault at the moment.
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i’m pleased to report that synapse seems to work ok now for me in 15.10 - yippee!
i personally prefer synapse, as its fuzzy search seems smarter - for example, type ffx in synapse and it will launch firefox
also i can type things like “gksudo caja” into synapse to launch programs as root.
isn’t it great that we’ve got some choice? - would be boring if everyone had to run the same software! 
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For me it still crashes. It works fine if launched through the terminal with sudo. I tried both the stable and testing versions, but both crash in normal use. Any tips?
Can’t offer any tips I’m afraid - it just works for me on my desktop and laptop, both on 15.10
I have the problem with hanging synapse on my 2 Ubuntu Mate 15.10 desktops. It used to work for few months and then it started to hang all the time I’m writing something into it. When I open synapse with sudo the problem doesn’t occur. This is output:
[INFO 22:19:53.733496] [synapse-main:268] Starting up…
[INFO 22:19:53.796550] [synapse-main:211] Binding activation to Super_L
[INFO 22:19:53.806864] [view-base:251] Screen is composited.
[INFO 22:19:53.807482] [controller:59] Using xim input method.
[FATAL 22:19:53.884791] [GLib] g_hash_table_lookup: assertion ‘hash_table != NULL’ failed
[WARN 22:19:53.885893] [desktop-file-service:193] Unable to create AppInfo for /usr/share/mate/applications/tilda.desktop
[WARN 22:19:53.889170] [desktop-file-service:72] X-Cinnamon is not understood
[WARN 22:19:53.890613] [desktop-file-service:193] Unable to create AppInfo for /usr/share/applications/vim.desktop
[WARN 22:19:53.890934] [desktop-file-service:193] Unable to create AppInfo for /usr/share/applications/unity-deja-dup-panel.desktop
[WARN 22:19:53.901708] [desktop-file-service:193] Unable to create AppInfo for /usr/share/applications/brasero-nautilus.desktop
[WARN 22:19:53.922323] [ssh-plugin:116] /home/piotr/.ssh/config: Error opening file: No such file or directory
[INFO 22:19:53.965757] [hybrid-search-plugin:179] keeps in cache now 357 file names
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Report this to the Synapse team please. I’ve told them, they can’t reproduce. But it segfaults every time.