Opening links in Signal in Arch linux does not work, have to copy+paste

[burrhole]

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Bug Description

When given a link to a website (say, https://example.com), the link is highlighted, but nothing happens on click.
Mentioned in #3411 (comment) however this seems to be an issue in X11 as well.

Steps to Reproduce

1. find a link in a Signal conversation and click

Actual Result:
Nothing happens. No error, nothing opens, no messages when opening Signal from a terminal either.

Expected Result:
The link should open in the default browser

Screenshots

Platform Info

Signal Version: 5.14

Operating System: Arch linux, freshly updated/rebooted

I am using Sway 1.6.1/Wayland with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 set for Firefox and Signal opened using signal-desktop --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland, however the issue happens when opened in XWayland (and seems to happen in X11 as well)

Link to Debug Log

https://debuglogs.org/5b3a3bf21797dbceaf3de8742ba9fa6f58bf8c3ac57611a09b08a6138bd7a20a.gz

[maximumultraist]

For what it's worth, I've observed this issue as well on Arch Linux, running GNOME 40.3 using the X11 session. Changing the default browser doesn't do anything. I've filed a bug on the Arch Linux bugtracker as well: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71865

[hiqua]

this seems to be an issue in X11 as well.

It works for me, what happens when you do xdg-open https://example.com from your terminal?

[burrhole]

@hiqua the link opens in my default browser as expected

[eris-price]

I'm seeing the same issue on arch using cinnamon, so it seems to be a problem on x11 as well. It only started happening after the last update, worked fine previously. xdg-open from the terminal works as expected.

[dreieinhalb]

I have the same issue here on Arch Linux with Xfce and X11. I first noticed the problem a few days ago with Signal-Desktop 5.13, but todays update to 5.14 sadly didn't fix it. The command xdg-open also works as expected.

[pitis]

Yup, me too. I have Manjaro GNOME with kernel 5.11.4-1-rt11-MANJARO but Signal doesn't open the links anymore. Which is weird, cause it always worked.

It seems to be an ARCH problem. 😄

[rfried1]

Same problem here.

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    n/a
Distributor ID: ManjaroLinux
Description:    Manjaro Linux
Release:        21.1.0
Codename:       Pahvo
$ pacman -Q signal-desktop plasma-desktop
signal-desktop 5.13.0-3
plasma-desktop 5.22.4-1

[Zesko]

Me too, Manjaro KDE, Xorg
xdg-open works fine.

[jantomicky]

Same issue here on Manjaro on GNOME 40.3.0 on Wayland, xdg-open works fine.

[rosekunkel]

I also experience this. Other electron-based apps (e.g. Slack) still open links in the browser like normal.

[JackDinn]

Same on Manjaro KDE X11. Was hoping for the answer how to fix, but alls no :(

[baal-zebub]

Same here on Void Linux and Sway 1.6.1, so it isn't just Arch. xdg-open works fine.

[duvholt]

Seems to be related to this package change in Arch: archlinux/svntogit-community@2aefdb8

When running the binary directly (/usr/lib/signal-desktop/signal-desktop), without the LD_PRELOAD change, opening links works again.

[kpcyrd]

It's a packaging issue, the LD_PRELOAD attempts to ensure the sqlcipher is always loaded into the process (#4513), the value is likely leaking to the child process when opening a link.

Not sure how to work around this, reverting it would break the signal database of people with [testing] repositories enabled.

[burrhole]

Newest update in the Arch repos fixed this issue for me. Thanks everyone who took the time to look at/work on it!
Unsure if I should close this if @baal-zebub is still experiencing it on Void since it may be an issue in other distributions as well, so I'll leave it to the contributors/maintainers.

Have a nice day!