Change the camera App which gets started with the camera button in LineageOS

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Hello!

Since the LineageOS stock camera App seems to have some trouble with the flashlight of the new camera module, and Open Camera seems to be better anyway, I installed Open Camera.
And now I would like to start Open Camera with the camera button, but how?

I managed to set Open Camera as the App that gets started when swiping the camera icon on the lock screen by resetting the defaults in Settings - Apps - Camera. Then I was asked for the desired App the next time I swiped the icon.

Alas, in LineageOS that doesn’t seem to do anything with the camera button, as it would do in Fairphone Open OS.
I can’t deactivate the stock App, and I can’t uninstall it the easy way* (I can try, but it always says uninstall failed).
I first disabled the stock App’s permissions to access the camera, that at least prevented the App from getting started with the camera button.

*I then managed to uninstall the stock App via installing Open GApps again with a gapps-config file that tells the installation to remove the stock camera App in the process. Neat feature :+1:, the stock camera App is really gone.

But even without the stock App being there the camera button doesn’t ask for the desired App.

What can I do?

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Strange, I did deactivate it and I can open Open Camera with the button.

PS: In Settings → Buttons under “Camera buttons” my settings are “wake device” disabled & “launch camera” enabled. But I think that’s the default setting.

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Thank you! That’s it.
These were the settings initially, and I probably never would have looked there again … now I looked and found “launch camera” disabled.
Enabled it again and the button indeed starts Open Camera now :+1: .

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