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Signal Messenger client for terminal
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QR-code doesnt show up on nixos #177

Closed TBS1996 closed 1 year ago

TBS1996 commented 1 year ago

Greetings, after i installed the program and run "gurk", the 'linking device' message comes up but nothing happens.

I have feh installed, do I need some other image viewer?

boxdot commented 1 year ago

Hi. The QR is rendered directly in the terminal. -- I just checked. For me, the QR code opens almost immediately.

TBS1996 commented 1 year ago

hmm, I tried with kitty but it still didnt work, ill see if it works on manjaro later perhaps

TBS1996 commented 1 year ago

Tried on manjaro and it worked, so i dont know whats causing this. Ive uploaded my flake to here: https://github.com/TBS1996/nix-flake

cleeyv commented 1 year ago

I wasn't able to reproduce this bug on NixOS. It worked fine on both gnome-console and kitty. Based on your config I see that you're using Sway WM so I tried that as well and it worked with the default terminal emulator (foot). I also tried it in a virtual console (ctrl-alt-f1) and it worked, though the QR code was rendered with a mix of grey blocks, and black and white diamond characters, and it couldn't be read by the Signal QR code scanner.

I see in your flake.nix that you've set nixpkgs to nixos-unstable, but maybe this hasn't successfully updated all your packages for some reason? What result are you getting from gurk --version? I'm quite sure I have the latest version 0.2.4 installed, but when I run gurk --version I see 0.2.3, and when I run the 22.05 version I see 0.2.2 even though I'm pretty sure it is actually 0.2.3. This discrepancy seems to be some kind of off-by-one error with the --version number, but that would be a different issue.

TBS1996 commented 1 year ago

Hey good news! I reinstalled nixos and rebuilt it with the given flake, and now it works! It sucks we dont know what happened that caused this, but at least then this is an example for if it happen to someone again in the future.