Start on login doesn't work #1363

EmmanuelMess · 2022-01-23T21:18:03Z

EasyEffects Version

6.2.1

What package are you using?

Flatpak (Flathub)

Distribution

Ubuntu 20.04

Describe the bug

"Start at login" button doesn't work

Expected Behavior

"Start at login" button activates after click

Debug Log

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Additional Information

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vchernin · 2022-01-23T21:21:37Z

Please run flatpak run com.github.wwmm.easyeffects and then watch the output when flipping the switch. It will tell you if it ran into a problem, and what to do.

It's very likely easyeffects doesn't have permission to autostart, it was denied somehow. It doesn't allow you to enable the switch because it knows, without the right permission, it won't actually work.

At some point I will add a toast or something to make this more clear.

EmmanuelMess · 2022-01-24T21:32:53Z

There are a lot of lv2_wrapper warnings.

This seems to be the error:

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 18:32:22.053: portal: a background request failed: Background request canceled

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 18:32:22.053: portal: background portal access has likely been denied

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 18:32:22.053: portal: to let EasyEffects ask for the portal again, run flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 18:32:22.053: portal: setting autostart state and switch to false

vchernin · 2022-01-24T21:34:41Z

Yeah, there are some unnecessary lv2 warnings. There should be around 10 or so, but it should be harmless.

Indeed as the warning says, run flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects

EmmanuelMess · 2022-01-24T21:34:55Z

Running flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects worked, I'll leave this open so that a toast is added.

vchernin · 2022-01-24T21:37:41Z

I think I’ll close this in favor of #1249, since that already tracks the toast.

I am curious though, do you recall ever denying the background access after being asked? Because if you never denied it, it means something is bugged.

EmmanuelMess · 2022-01-24T23:35:57Z

I am curious though, do you recall ever denying the background access after being asked?}

Yes, it was a misclick, I realized after I reset the settings and saw the dialog.

vchernin · 2022-01-24T23:39:36Z

Thanks, that's good to know it wasn't denying it for no reason.

dbkblk · 2022-01-27T13:09:44Z

I'm sorry but it hasn't fixed the problem on my computer (Debian Testing).
The switch for "Start service at login" or "Shutdown on windows close" still doesn't work. That is also why I cannot use the command line to set a profile (because I think the software is exiting once the profile is set, and won't run in the background).

$ flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects
$ flatpak run com.github.wwmm.easyeffects
You have PipeWire 0.3.43 installed
This is newer or the same as PipeWire 0.3.31 required to run EasyEffects
(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 14:09:01.642: portal: a background request failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: L’interface « org.freedesktop.portal.Background » n’existe pas pour l’objet à l’emplacement /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 14:09:01.642: portal: background portal access has likely been denied
(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 14:09:01.642: portal: to let EasyEffects ask for the portal again, run flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects
(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 14:09:01.642: portal: setting autostart state and switch to false

(I removed the lv2_wrappers errors as well)

EDIT: I also tried this with no success:
flatpak permission-set background background com.github.wwmm.easyeffects yes

vchernin · 2022-01-27T16:43:07Z

@dbkblk That error likely means you don't have the correct portal backend(s) installed on your system. That is usually the responsibility of the distro, it should be a hard dependency for Flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal.

What desktop environment/window manager are you using? Depending on that, make sure you have the correct packages with apt.

On Gnome you want:

xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

On KDE you want:

xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal-kde
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

On wlroots you want:

xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal-wlroots
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

In theory I might be able to catch this specific error and show a specific error message within EE. But likely many other apps using portals would be affected, and I doubt they would try to do that.

dbkblk · 2022-01-27T18:35:58Z

Thank you for the tips, but it still doesn't work.
I'm using XFCE and tried the following packages (in vain):

flatpak-xdg-utils
gir1.2-xdpgtk3-1.0
libportail-gtk3-1
xdg-desktop-portal (was already installed)
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk (was already installed)

I have no idea left.

EDIT: I've reproduced the exact same problem in a VM. Standard XFCE Debian Testing installation, with xdg-desktop-portal-gtk installed by default. I've installed flatpak, added flathub, then easyeffects, and I get the same error message.

Note: I will try to help with debian/ubuntu packaging if I find some more free time in the coming weeks.

vchernin · 2022-01-27T18:47:22Z

Unfortunately XFCE does not yet have a dedicated xdg-desktop-portal backend as far as I know, and the background portal backend in xdg-desktop-portal-gtk was disabled by default in Debian and upstream, since it depends on GNOME components.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/-/commits/debian/master/configure.ac

However, as a workaround installing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome on XFCE might work.

dbkblk · 2022-01-27T19:13:01Z

Thank you for this answer :)
I've tried on the VM and it worked.
I was worried to pull xdg-desktop-portal-gnome because it would pull gnome-shell and a lot of gnome dependencies, but without the recommended packages, it worked :)
The final solution for Debian XFCE is: sudo apt install --no-install-recommends xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

vchernin · 2022-01-27T19:24:19Z

Glad it worked :) It's not exactly ideal, eventually I imagine someone will make xdg-desktop-portal-xfce.

RafaelKr · 2022-08-31T10:00:37Z

I'm using Linux Mint 21 and run into this error

> flatpak run com.github.wwmm.easyeffects                                                                     
You have PipeWire 0.3.48 installed
This is newer or the same as PipeWire 0.3.41 required to run EasyEffects

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 11:55:06.133: 	preferences_general.cpp:76	portal: a background request failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Background” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 11:55:06.133: 	preferences_general.cpp:77	portal: background portal access has likely been denied

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 11:55:06.133: 	preferences_general.cpp:78	portal: to let EasyEffects ask for the portal again, run flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 11:55:06.189: 	preferences_general.cpp:99	portal: setting autostart state and switch to false

I completely closed easyeffects via System Monitor, ran flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects started it again but get the same error. I also tried to run sudo apt install --no-install-recommends xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and doing the same procedure afterwards without success.

Does anyone know what to do for LM 21?

vchernin · 2022-08-31T13:40:09Z

(Edited as I realized my response didn’t make sense)
What desktop are you using? Do you have xdg-desktop-portal installed? What other xdg-desktop-portal-* packages for you have? Did you reboot after installing the new packages?

RafaelKr · 2022-08-31T13:45:59Z

What desktop are you using?

I'm using Cinnamon 5.4 (on LM21)

Do you have xdg-desktop-portal installed? What other xdg-desktop-portal-* packages for you have?

> dpkg -l | grep xdg-desktop-portal-    
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gtk                     1.14.0-1build1                                         amd64        GTK+/GNOME portal backend for xdg-desktop-portal


> sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal
[...]
xdg-desktop-portal is already the newest version (1.14.4-1ubuntu2~22.04.1).

Did you reboot after installing the new packages?

I didn't. Should I try using xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, reboot and then run the permission reset?

vchernin · 2022-08-31T13:54:29Z

Should I try using xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, reboot and then run the permission reset?

The permission reset won’t help if the interface simply doesn’t exist, so yeah try reboot and see what happens.

RafaelKr · 2022-08-31T14:02:01Z

Thanks! I did sudo apt install --no-install-recommends xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, rebooted, ran flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects and flatpak run com.github.wwmm.easyeffects. Now it asked me after toggling the setting and it seems to work!

Edit: Just tested it, EasyEffects is autostarting after a reboot 👌

jmaster92 · 2022-10-17T02:23:16Z

Great !!!! @RafaelKr it works perfectly

alexkuz · 2023-01-16T08:56:14Z

I'm using LM 21.1, installing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and resetting permissions didn't help, still getting the same error:

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-DEBUG: 09:46:08.198: 	libportal.cpp:214	not doing portal sanity check, autostart switch should be disabled and shutdown switch should be enabled so no background portal access is needed
(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-DEBUG: 09:46:09.253: 	libportal.cpp:142	requesting autostart file since autostart is enabled
(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-DEBUG: 09:46:09.276: 	libportal.cpp:66	a background request failed: Background request canceled

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 09:46:09.276: 	libportal.cpp:68	Background access has been denied

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 09:46:09.276: 	libportal.cpp:69	Please allow Easy Effects to ask again with flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects

(easyeffects:2): easyeffects-WARNING **: 09:46:09.297: 	libportal.cpp:82	due to error, setting autostart state and switch to false

Anything else I could do here?

RafaelKr · 2023-01-16T09:31:37Z

@alexkuz Did you reboot between installing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and permission reset? This did the trick for me. See #1363 (comment)

alexkuz · 2023-01-16T10:25:08Z

Yes I did.

alexkuz · 2023-01-20T22:50:05Z

I found out I can set background permissions manually via flatseal.
Not sure why flatpak permission-reset thing didn't work.

n1ckh3ll · 2024-06-04T12:42:44Z

Thanks! I did sudo apt install --no-install-recommends xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, rebooted, ran flatpak permission-reset com.github.wwmm.easyeffects and flatpak run com.github.wwmm.easyeffects. Now it asked me after toggling the setting and it seems to work!

Edit: Just tested it, EasyEffects is autostarting after a reboot 👌

Thanks from cinnamon 6.0.4 mint 21.3 in the future

EmmanuelMess closed this as completed Jan 24, 2022

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