Losing Browser Session when Switching Desktop Environment

rajivaharlalka · 2023-05-06 02:12:49

Hi all, I am currently using GNOME as my daily DE and was trying to shift to a tiling WM and chose hyprland to start with. But have been encountering a weird issue that I get logged out from everywhere on all my browsers just when switching between the DE and WM.

I don't have an idea how I could share this problem, and any help would be highly appreciated.

seth · 2023-05-06 06:00:58

What exactly do you mean by "logged out from everywhere"?
"all your browsers" (which, please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855 ) rely on gnome-keyring for authentication and maybe even put the cookie jar there?

rajivaharlalka · 2023-05-06 06:19:10

By "logged out from everywhere" I meant all the different accounts where I was logged in just log out. Seems somewhat like all the local cache just gets cleared, which is something not expected.

> maybe even put the cookie jar there?
Don't browsers use the .cache folder for storing the cookies and caches?

seth · 2023-05-06 06:33:17

Don't browsers use the .cache folder for storing the cookies and caches?

Browsers™ may, but Browsers® may not.

eems somewhat like all the local cache just gets cleared

Does the same happen if you log out of gnome and back into gnome?

Again: please don't paraphrase, actually read https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855 or I'm out.

rajivaharlalka · 2023-05-06 06:43:04

Apologies for the paraphrasing, didn't mean to.

> Does the same happen if you log out of gnome and back into gnome?
No, it only happens when I switch between different DE and WM's . I mostly use microsoft-edge-stable-bin as my main browser and have faced this issue the last time I switched between environments too. I don't have a clue what log file could be helpful in this regard hence unable to attach the same.

seth · 2023-05-06 06:48:29

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromi … word_store

Try to run gnome-keyring w/ the other session.

Edit: but I see why you'd be reluctant to reveal the actual browser

Last edited by seth (2023-05-06 06:49:23)

rajivaharlalka · 2023-05-06 07:03:20

Sorry, that didnt help. But noticed something weird now. The browser's profile where it sync's data didn't get logged out, instead only the different websites where I was logged in had been logged out.

seth · 2023-05-06 07:21:24

How and when did you attempt to run gnome-keyring? (Before the browser?)
Can you access it afterwards?
Did you force "--password-store=gnome"?

What websites specifically?
Did you inspect the keyring data for the stored cookies?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/ … stallation

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Losing Browser Session when Switching Desktop Environment

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