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zoom-us: add xdg_utils to PATH #100560

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@KamilaBorowska KamilaBorowska commented Oct 15, 2020 •
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This allows Zoom to open a web browser other than Google Chrome,
Firefox or Opera when xdg_utils is not installed.

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It may help with https://discourse.nixos.org/t/no-sso-in-zoom-unless-firefox-is-installed/9453.

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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/no-sso-in-zoom-unless-firefox-is-installed/9453/2

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zoom-us: add xdg_utils to PATH
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This allows Zoom to open a web browser other than Google Chrome,
Firefox or Opera when xdg_utils is not installed.
@KamilaBorowska KamilaBorowska changed the title zoom_us: add xdg_utils to PATH zoom-us: add xdg_utils to PATH Oct 15, 2020
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It may help with https://discourse.nixos.org/t/no-sso-in-zoom-unless-firefox-is-installed/9453

So we are not sure if it fixes the issue?

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KamilaBorowska commented Oct 15, 2020 •
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It may help with https://discourse.nixos.org/t/no-sso-in-zoom-unless-firefox-is-installed/9453

So we are not sure if it fixes the issue?

Honestly, I have no idea, I don't use zoom myself. I'm doing this because https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/871392790eafdd22521367ba485da5c10e9bb0db/src/gui/platform/unix/qgenericunixservices.cpp#L126 suggests it may help. Qt tries xdg-open first before it uses really weird fallback code.

The error message "Unable to detect a web browser to launch" comes from Qt according to web search.

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It can't hurt anything, and it does appear Qt is indeed shelling out to xdg-open for this interaction. This may explain the SSO/Google login issues, as I have xdg-open in my $PATH but other users may not.

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It can't hurt anything, and it does appear Qt is indeed shelling out to xdg-open for this interaction. This may explain the SSO/Google login issues, as I have xdg-open in my $PATH but other users may not.

I would have tested that myself, but I don't have a way to sign in with SSO to reproduce the behavior. OTH, if someone else has SSO, uninstalling xdg_utils for the sake of testing this shouldn't be difficult.

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