# Kopia-UI looks like it's hung

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-looks-like-its-hung/8981>\
**Category:** General Topics\
**Created:** [August 21, 2026, 12:44pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-looks-like-its-hung/8981 "2026-08-21T12:44:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![markf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@markf](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/markf)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 12:44pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/kopia-ui-looks-like-its-hung/8981/1 "2026-08-21T12:44:12Z")

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KopiaUI is not an app that you can start and stop, it’s a background service accessible through the system tray. Running on a Gnome desktop, with no system tray, the first time you start kopia-ui it opens with on the repository page. If you stop and start kopia-ui, it will only start the system tray icon.

I was hoping to use this as a self-service archive for a 2PB home directory with ~500 users. Their virtual desktop is Gnome on a shared server, 36 user sessions per node. I don’t need 36 kopia server processes sitting in memory, especially being infrequently used by 10% of the users.

Hopefully this helps someone out. I spent 2 days working on it before realizing this.