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AppImage - all external links do not function #628

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@Digital-Yeti

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Desktop app (Linux)

Affected area

Desktop app (Tauri)

Bug description

On Arch Linux: Running the AppImage and attempting to click links, whether news article or the Update button, fails. I verified, using the source code, that xdg-open is used to open external applications. xdg-open is configured on my system and works in cli, yet all external functions fail to operate. This also includes, in the debug logs section, the Open Logs Folder button, which fails to open the file manager. I have also concluded this is not an AppImage issue because other applications on my system that are packaged into AppImage allow external links to open in browser perfectly fine.

Steps to reproduce

Open WorldMonitor and wait for it to populate.
Click any news story, article, update button, or open folder button.
Nothing happens, no link is opened.

Expected behavior

The browser should open the link of the story I clicked, the update button should bring me to the github releases, and the open logs folder button should open the logs folder.

Screenshots / Console errors

/home/user/Applications/World.Monitor_2.5.21_amd64_45f15eaa3175cc441a17fc1def06c161.AppImage    
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""

(gst-plugin-scanner:1790415): GStreamer-WARNING **: 19:52:48.891: Failed to load plugin '/tmp/.mount_World.eIijgb/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfluidsynthmidi.so': /usr/lib/libjack.so.0: undefined symbol: pw_log_topic_register

Each time a link fails to open /bin/sh: symbol lookup error: /bin/sh: undefined symbol: rl_print_keybinding is output to the console.

Browser & OS

Arch Linux Desktop AppImage

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