Linux Preview — Sign-in button does not open the browser

[Lukestar46]

The bug should be fairly easy for them to fix. They are bundling an old version of xdg-open that doesn’t work with Plasma 6.

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Summary The Epic Games Launcher AppImage does not open a web browser when the user clicks the “login” button on a system running KDE Plasma 6 (Wayland). The launcher appears to do nothing and logs no errors. The root cause is an outdated bundled xdg-open script (version 1.1.3) that only supports KDE_SESSION_VERSION 4 and 5, and silently exits on Plasma 6. The AppImage’s internal PATH causes this bundled script to be used even when the system’s working xdg-open is available. Environment Distrib…