Hey, I need help I'm using garuda-linux (arch based) and I can't log into the GitHub Desktop application, every time I click on Sign In I get a redirect to the browser and there I enable that I want to redirect back to the application but when it throws me back to the application I'm still not logged in, I've tried a lot of things to fix it but I still can't... 
#[SOLVED] Github Desktop Issue
spiral plank
glacial estuary
Does the app react at all or does it just act like nothing happened at all?
spiral plank
Does the app react at all or does it just act like nothing happened at all?
It act like nothing happened
It just takes me back to the app and nothing
glacial estuary
what browser are you using to login?
spiral plank
what browser are you using to login?
FireDragon
It runs on firefox
I tried it on chrome and it's still the same
glacial estuary
okay so not a browser problem then. check the logs on github desktop. is there any sort of authentication thing going on?
high breach
Are you running it under wine?
spiral plank
Are you running it under wine?
No
high breach
Then how are you
spiral plank
I use git clone .. and then makepkg -si
glacial estuary
it's a fork: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/
high breach
Oh
spiral plank
idk what to really do
glacial estuary
spiral plank
Url?
glacial estuary
you mean gnome-keyring? the link to the arch wiki is this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring#Using_the_keyring_outside_GNOME
you could try the flatpak and see if that is any better
spiral plank
you could try the flatpak and see if that is any better
Could you help me with the keyring?
I'm new in linux tbh
I installed the gnome-keyring and libsecret package
glacial estuary
i could try, but I don't use any keyrings on linux. I have my own password manager
i think that before it's worth a try to download the flatpak and see if that just works
spiral plank
i think that before it's worth a try to download the flatpak and see if that jus...
So I install flatpak and what else?
glacial estuary
just flatpak should do
and try to login in the flatpak
here's the link to it if you need btw:
spiral plank
let me try it
[2:1120/212334.320753:ERROR:bus.cc(399)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[2:1120/212334.320821:ERROR:bus.cc(399)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
xdg-settings
LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
xdg-settings
[41:1120/212337.198663:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[41:1120/212337.206244:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[41:1120/212338.768642:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!```i get this when i run flatpak run io.github.shiftey.Desktop
@glacial estuary
glacial estuary
okay, so flatpak is not going to be as easy as i thought then
spiral plank
Sorry :D
glacial estuary
what de/wm are you using?
glacial estuary
ok so kde
weird. I don't have gnome-keyring and I was able to login to the aur pkg no problem at all
let's take a step back
run github-desktop from the terminal and try to login
does it output anything or still no reaction?
spiral plank
run github-desktop from the terminal and try to login
huh?
glacial estuary
If you open terminal and run github-desktop it will open the app and log things to console
Goes for any app you have installed in linux; for instance you can run firefox and it will log your whole instance of firefox to console
glacial estuary
Does it just say not found?
glacial estuary
You do?
spiral plank
yeah
give me sec
and sorry, i know it's pain with me 
i can give you some donation if you fix it that's not a problem
glacial estuary
Not at all dont worry about it
Im here because i want to help
I think you mentioned earlier that you cloned and makepkg'd the app right? I would recommend you to get an aur helper instead.
spiral plank
I think you mentioned earlier that you cloned and makepkg'd the app right? I wou...
What is aur helper? 
glacial estuary
It means you can type in literally any app you like and probably get an aur result directly from console.
.aw aur helper
slow hillBOT
.aw aur helper
spiral plank
If you open terminal and run github-desktop it will open the app and log things ...
Done
So now i should sign in?
To see logs about it?
glacial estuary
Try it most that can happen is it wont work
spiral plank
No log
╰─λ github-desktop
[124332:1120/215641.138884:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[124332:1120/215642.499567:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[124332:1120/215647.942181:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!
Only this
glacial estuary
No, that's just video stuff, not related to authentication
Ok, let's take another step back
spiral plank
No, that's just video stuff, not related to authentication
I just tried to log in and it didn't log anything haha
glacial estuary
I just tried to log in and it didn't log anything haha
Ikik
First remove the pkg with pacman -R github-desktop
spiral plank
done
glacial estuary
Then let's try with an aur helper and see if that fixes it
glacial estuary
Ok go for it
glacial estuary
Nice!
So, aur helper-wise there's loads of variety but most people end up using either yay or paru
spiral plank
Okay?
glacial estuary
They are almost the same as well, I prefer yay because the command is easier to remember particularly
If you look at the archwiki you can see the differences between them
To install one of them you do the same as you did with github desktop. You clone it from the aur and makepkg -si
spiral plank
Okay sure, give me sec than
glacial estuary
But once you do that you never have to manually go and clone stuff and makepkg it unless you want to or there's no script in the aur
spiral plank
Okay.
glacial estuary
After you get one of them you can install anything by typing the name of the helper and the app you want installed
spiral plank
To install one of them you do the same as you did with github desktop. You clone...
Done now
glacial estuary
For instance earlier when i installed github desktop i just used yay github desktop and it gave me a list i could pick from
spiral plank
After you get one of them you can install anything by typing the name of the hel...
so for example only yay /gay?
spiral plank
For instance earlier when i installed github desktop i just used yay github desk...
That's usuful package
glacial estuary
Yeah essentially
spiral plank
And i installed yay too
glacial estuary
And if you want to update just yay works
spiral plank
it updates all packages?
glacial estuary
It updates from aur
spiral plank
or i need run yey works <name>
glacial estuary
Not the ones you got with pacman
spiral plank
oooo
glacial estuary
So what should i run now?
Try getting github desktop from yay. It will handle everything for you
Just run "yay github desktop"
glacial estuary
Nice! Whenever i want something that's not on pacman i tend to just check if its in yay before googling github repos and things
spiral plank
Nice! Whenever i want something that's not on pacman i tend to just check if its...
It's much easier but I haven't read or heard of this package anywhere
glacial estuary
So, packagename-git is the latest commit from repo, packagename-bin is the latest official build and packagename should be latest build as well iirc
glacial estuary
Any of them should work i think
glacial estuary
Main difference is that stuff is precompiled with -bin so it means that if you are downloading a web browser that or something that takes ages to compile you dont havr to wait through it
Just run it and try to login
At least iirc
spiral plank
what is iirc
glacial estuary
If i recall correctly
glacial estuary
Damn i thought i had it
glacial estuary
yout browser is asking to open the app after you login right?
glacial estuary
what do you mean
spiral plank
first time I checked that it can open links from github without asking
glacial estuary
oh i see so you did get this at some point
spiral plank
yep
glacial estuary
weird i don't see what could be going wrong
glacial estuary
maybe we can somehow login using devtools in the github desktop app
glacial estuary
oh that's better
spiral plank
get this after i click on fetch button lol
glacial estuary
fetch button?
glacial estuary
some people seem to have a similar problem with slack desktop and apparently just using plain firefox fixed it for them
maybe worth a try?
glacial estuary
you can just install it using pacman and then uninstall it using pacman -R if it doesn't work
yeah
spiral plank
you can just install it using pacman and then uninstall it using pacman -R if it...
wdym?
the firefox right?
glacial estuary
yeah yeah, pacman -S firefox
glacial estuary
sure it's just a frontend
slow hillBOT
Too few arguments for command note!
Usage: .note <name>
glacial estuary
damn, are you copying the link from firedragon to firefox and then logging in or just changing default browser
spiral plank
changing the default browser
glacial estuary
yeah that should work
very weird indeed
i mean you can delete firefox now if you like
glacial estuary
hold on i'll do some googling, might be a majaro problem potentially?
glacial estuary
have you ever logged in to anything else using a browser login ever since you installed linux?
spiral plank
nope
only via chrome/firefox now with you
wait
or what do you mean by "anything else"
glacial estuary
hold on maybe i got a lead?
press control shift I in the github app, it will open devtools
go into application, storage and clear the site data
spiral plank
now sign in right?
glacial estuary
restart the app then try to sign in
spiral plank
I log in via browser
but it's not working
when i go to "File -> Options -> Settings" im still not logged in
glacial estuary
hold on i'm doing some incredible debugging to see if i can find something
if that something can be found we have a chance
glacial estuary
found it
spiral plank
glacial estuary
run this command in terminal
while sleep .1; do ps aux | grep oauth | grep github; done
then try to login
it should, in theory come up with a couple requests and in them there will be an oauth token
we good so far or no token?
spiral plank
no token
glacial estuary
FUCK
ok well at least we know what the problem is
your browser is just not sending the login request
glacial estuary
this is what should have happened btw
spiral plank
should i try it with chrome now?
spiral plank
so how else are we gonna solve this?
spiral plank
does the popup appear with chrome/firefox or other browsers
yes
let me try it with chrome
to see what happen
glacial estuary
what does it want to open? it says allow github to open the "somethin" auth link
glacial estuary
don't send the token
spiral plank
open github desktop = no token in console
glacial estuary
let's see try this command instead: while sleep .1; do ps aux | grep oauth; done
spiral plank
do i need delete the site data again?
glacial estuary
nono
spiral plank
okay
glacial estuary
we're trying to find if the token is being sent anywhere at all
you should be able to refresh the page btw, you don't have to login again
spiral plank
let's see try this command instead: while sleep .1; do ps aux | grep oauth; done
no token
spiral plank
you should be able to refresh the page btw, you don't have to login again
oh ty
glacial estuary
this one? while sleep .1; do ps aux | grep ://; done
if there's no token with this one we can conclude that it's going to limbo
glacial estuary
ok. the login request is 
glacial estuary
i don't think that's affecting it. the command we are running is system-wide
spiral plank
oh
glacial estuary
for instance, if you run just while sleep .1; do ps aux; done
you will see everything
the | grep | things just filter it to what we need
spiral plank
oh make sense
glacial estuary
hold on i found a thread
In the settings/general tab in firefox, I scrolled down to Applications and found the entry for “zoommtg”. Then I changed the zoommtg application preference from “always ask” to the zoomLauncher executable in my flatpack directory. For me this was /var/lib/flatpak/app/us.zoom.Zoom/x86_64/stable/c3fb82e300cdf0eb0f9040e4d72372e8f1c0a2d5d5be7f67dca3ede4a16665d0/files/extra/zoom/ZoomLauncher
If you installed zoom via flatpack you should find it via file search.
After making this change, the dialog appears as normal when launching zoom via link.```maybe we could adapt this
glacial estuary
nono
spiral plank
glacial estuary
your browser is a firefox fork right?
spiral plank
yeah
glacial estuary
it's got the same settings
glacial estuary
yeah, we don't want zoom we want github
spiral plank
yeah have it here
glacial estuary
we can try always ask
spiral plank
and now try login again?
glacial estuary
yeah go for it
glacial estuary
so no allow this site blablabla popup?
glacial estuary
hmm very strange
do you have any extensions that could be preventing a redirect or something like that?
i mean considering it doesn't work with other browsers it's probably not the issue
glacial estuary
try disabling the plasma integration just for the sake of tests
don't think that's it though
spiral plank
same issue
but
when i refrash the settings page
the "always ask" is set for action
did it change on its own?
glacial estuary
OH very weird
let's try to go with the original plan
change to other app then make it /opt/github-desktop/github-desktop
glacial estuary
use other in the applications page in your browser
glacial estuary
okay, that's better though
because if it put you in the app
it means it sent a request
spiral plank
yeah
glacial estuary
while sleep .1; do ps aux | grep oauth | grep github; done
spiral plank
what is the .1 btw?
glacial estuary
basically every .1 seconds refresh
glacial estuary
AAAAAAAAA
what the fuck
ok we can conclude
the request is being sent but with no token
for whatever reason
spiral plank
any fix for that?
glacial estuary
let's keep trying to find out what it's sending
glacial estuary
in firefox, the content type on the settings page is x-github-desktop-dev-auth right?
spiral plank
in the applications?
glacial estuary
yeah
spiral plank
yep
glacial estuary
ok good
glacial estuary
while sleep .1; do ps aux | grep x-github-desktop; done
glacial estuary
the app is coming up right?
spiral plank
yep
glacial estuary
ok let me rephrase, what is x-github-desktop-auth doing
spiral plank
glacial estuary
it's just saying by the way, open the app 
found something that could maybe work?
spiral plank
lets try it?
glacial estuary
i'm checking if we can get it first
spiral plank
I'll boost this server just because you're so willing 
glacial estuary
i found where the app stores the token, but i need to see whether or not we can extract the server from the auth thing
glacial estuary
I'll boost this server just because you're so willing <:AK_heart_bear:8569787550...
not everybody is like me though 🙂
besides, you are the only open ticket that i can help atm
spiral plank
not everybody is like me though 🙂
That's bad :(
You are good person
I need to go now buddy, can we finish it tomorrow?
glacial estuary
sure i'm gonna go to sleep soon as well
i'll do some digging and see if i can find some alternative way to login
spiral plank
Yeah, thank you so muc so far man!
glacial estuary
i'm sure it will help someone else in the future as well
spiral plank
Have a good night!
spiral plank
i'm sure it will help someone else in the future as well
Yeah for sure!
If we find the problem, you can do a gist
severe fulcrum
are you still unable to login?
glacial estuary
I made this shortlist of what i could find
# GITHUB DESKTOP POSSIBILITIES
1. APPLICATION PRIVILEDGE
2. https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/12199#issuecomment-840456210
3. https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/issues/632#issuecomment-1049889000
- Being the most recent
spiral plank
I made this shortlist of what i could find
```markdown
# GITHUB DESKTOP POSSIBIL...
So what should I try?
spiral plank
make sure you have the kde keyring and kwallet
how to setup this?
severe fulcrum
sudo pacman -S kwallet
spiral plank
installed and same issue
severe fulcrum
well, did you restart after installing that?
spiral plank
restart pc?
severe fulcrum
yes
spiral plank
yes
no :d
let me try it
MAN
IT'S WORKING
HAHGFHAG9A
Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooo much! ❤️
spiral plank
glacial estuary
it doesn't even say anywhere kdewallet is needed
spiral plank
Thank you so much for your time Luigi
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severe fulcrum
it doesn't even say anywhere kdewallet is needed
it doesn't, but it needs gnome-keyring they said right
kwallet is the kde equivalent of that