Can not Sign In plex-desktop installed via flatpak

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Server Version#: Doesn’t matter here.
Player Version#: 1.90.1.118-a4bc1429

Hi there

I just installed the plex-desktop client on my Arch Linux machine via flatpak. Unfortunatly if I try to login, nothing happens. No browser window opens, no login screen appears nothing. Sometimes it even displays

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How can I fix this? Is there a way to manually add the login token ? I just want to be able to Sign In. Thanks for your feedback.

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I’m having exactly the same issue. Also on Arch flatpak, same version.

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Sounds like the flatplak has no internet access.

Maybe running flatpak run --share=network tv.plex.PlexDesktop will solve it.

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Unfortunately this doesn’t solve the issue.

I am running Qtile as a tiling window manager. My guess is that it tries to open a browser windows to login, but it is unable to find the default browser and just does nothing. Is there a way to login without the gui? Maybe a config file where the login token is stored ? I want to just use my plex client…

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I found the solution, this is my documentation:

  1. Install XDG Desktop Portal with sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal
  2. Install XDG Desktop Portal Backend, sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
  3. And if using a tiling windows manager, force desktop environment with:
~/.config/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
Environment="XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE"
  1. sudo systemctl deamon-reload
  2. Done
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