Linux Mint (Debian/Ubuntu): Authentication for Google Drive fails about buttercup-desktop

[perry-mitchell]

Hello! Thanks for making an issue.

Seems this is semi common on different Linux distros, but I'm not sure what the issue could be. I believe it's usually the OS that decides to register protocols, as we don't configure this per platform - it's baked into Electron.

Not sure there's much I can do to help here, unless someone has time to experiment on these OSes with the protocol (deep link) registration.

You might consider appending logs to confirm this but I believe they'll mention a failure to register the bcup protocol.

[aikiks]

Hi,
Lbuntu 24.04, I have the same issue using the AppImage.
What can I do to help solve the issue?
Where are the log files?
Karl

[aikiks]

Out of curiosity I downloaded the newest PreRelease and instead of absolutely nothing happening after the xdg-open request this time the window in the picture opens.
Does that help to solve the issue?

[tdislay]

Try this method to open the link:
#987 (comment)

[aikiks]

thanks for the answer, I tried, but I don't get the error message in the terminal
not in the terminal I started Buttercup from
not the terminal I started chromium from
and I alsy tried to start brave from the terminal, no error message

[tdislay]

Try in firefox (maybe similar with chromium-like browsers) and open the developer console when redirected you should see something like Prevented navigation to “buttercup://auth/google/callback?googledesktopauth......” due to an unknown protocol.

[aikiks]

I tried firefox, this is what I get in the terminal:

----------------------begin
firefox
[Parent 8124, Main Thread] WARNING: Failed to parse /etc/xdg/xdg-Lubuntu/gtk-3.0/settings.ini: Permission denied: 'glib warning', file /build/firefox/parts/firefox/build/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187

(firefox:8124): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:44:24.437: Failed to parse /etc/xdg/xdg-Lubuntu/gtk-3.0/settings.ini: Permission denied
[Parent 8124, Main Thread] WARNING: Failed to mkdir /home/karl/snap/firefox/4630/.config/ibus/bus: Not a directory: 'glib warning', file /build/firefox/parts/firefox/build/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187

(firefox:8124): IBUS-WARNING **: 17:44:24.602: Failed to mkdir /home/karl/snap/firefox/4630/.config/ibus/bus: Not a directory
-----------------------------end

I don't see the necessary lines.

Anyway, I'm away from the computer for a month or more now. If there will be more ideas about what to do it will take me a while to answer.
Maybe until then the problem is solved, that would be nice.

Also I'm wondering that appimagelauncher is necessary. The program hasn't been updated since a few years already. Wouldn't it be better to somehow find another way to deal with this?

thanks,
Karl