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itskiasoc5

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Registered: 2022-01-08

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keybase-gui fails to launch

Can't run keybase-gui through the desktop icon, command line, or electron.

% keybase-gui   
Environment variable $KEYBASE_AUTOSTART not set, ignoring.

I'm not sure what $KEYBASE_AUTOSTART should be set to.

% /usr/bin/electron13 /usr/share/keybase-app 
Version: 5.9.1
[1]    24468 trace trap  /usr/bin/electron13 /usr/share/keybase-app

itskiasoc5

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Registered: 2022-01-08

Posts: 13

Re: keybase-gui fails to launch

Above test is using KDE. I tested keybase-gui again on sway and it runs as expected, even showing the same environment variable error. Keybase docs says that the autostart variable is set if keybase should autostart on login, and since I disabled this the variable is unset. I looked at ~/.config/electron13-flags.conf and I had enabled wayland (--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform and --ozone-platform=wayland). So I removed the flags from the electron conf file to disable wayland. Then keybase-gui on KDE ran as expected, but with Xwayland.

The real issue is that running electron13 standalone with wayland enable crashes on KDE:

% electron13 > /dev/null 
[1]    14174 trace trap  electron13 > /dev/null

So I think this is a KDE bug.