[0.46.0] Python environment issues on Linux AppImage

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As posted on: Python evnironment issue in Linux AppImage · Issue #2734 · getcursor/cursor · GitHub

ACK: I will post this on the forums as well, its pretty critical in the Linux Build.

Version: 0.46.0
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: aff57e1d9a74ed627fb5bd393e347079514436a0
Date: 2025-02-21T04:49:24.841Z
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.8.0-1020-oem

Python path configuration:
  PYTHONHOME = '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/'
  PYTHONPATH = '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/share/pyshared/:'
  program name = '/usr/bin/python3'
  isolated = 0
  environment = 1
  user site = 1
  safe_path = 0
  import site = 1
  is in build tree = 0
  stdlib dir = '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/lib/python3.12'
  sys._base_executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
  sys.base_prefix = '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/'
  sys.base_exec_prefix = '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/'
  sys.platlibdir = 'lib'
  sys.executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
  sys.prefix = '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/'
  sys.exec_prefix = '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/'
  sys.path = [
    '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/share/pyshared',
    '/home/saber7ooth/Documents/repos/comfyg',
    '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/lib/python312.zip',
    '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/lib/python3.12',
    '/tmp/user/1000/.mount_cursorBLFrdY/usr/lib/python3.12/lib-dynload',
  ]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x000078a6d9b58740 (most recent call first):
  <no Python frame>

Happens when doing anything related to npm. Running cursor . also ends me up in the AppImage’s virtual directory after putting cursor into /opt/cursor and adding that to PATH with my usual ~/.bashrc alias. This did not occour prior to updating to 0.46.0:

Here’s that portion of ~/.bashrc:

cursor() {
  # Run the cursor command and suppress background process output completely
  (nohup /opt/cursor/cursor.AppImage --no-sandbox "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 &)
}

I use the usual nohup trick to avoid the AppImage forking itself into the foreground/taking over the terminal process. Again, nothings changed, and this worked before the update.

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I have I believe problems that may be of similar origin. I reported them here

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I managed to fix this issue on Linux. See for details Cursor 0.46.0 adds $PYTHONHOME to env with wrong value - #9 by serghei