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"Sign in using your browser" doesn't work with AppImage

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Description

When prompted to sign in to the app, the “Sign in using your browser” option doesn’t work.

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 1.0.11

OS version: Ubuntu 16.04.3

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Launch the app for the first time
  2. Press buttons until you can choose to sign in in a browser, and do so
  3. Go through the OAuth prompts
  4. Finish the OAuth prompts, and the redirect to the app doesn’t work – you get prompted (by Chrome) to open xdg-open, but the webpage doesn’t close, and the GitHub app just sits there with the loading spinner until you press Cancel.

Expected behavior: Signing in through a browser should work

Actual behavior: The redirect back to the app doesn’t work

Reproduces how often: Presumably always, at least when using the AppImage

Logs

Can’t find these on Linux, will happily provide if someone tells me where they are

Additional Information

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Reactions:1
  • Comments:19 (9 by maintainers)

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ascendancyycommented, Jun 15, 2018

The app protocols need to be added to script/electron-builder-linux.yml. In electron-packager the protocols are only used for mapping to CFBundleURLSchemes. Meanwhile the protocols in the electron-builder config are used to add the MimeType entry to the app’s desktop file.

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theel0jacommented, Feb 27, 2018

Same issue with .deb version

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