On Debian 13.5 trixie amd_x64 (intel) the cat control and desktop, only open a wrl web link
@EA7JRS It opens a web link for you to log in and authenticate and then it will redirect back to the app.
Log in does not work for me with Ubuntu. Chrome asks to open WRLDesktop, but when I click to open, the app center say No Apps Available, “No apps installed that are able to open file.extension. You can find more apps in Software.”
I am running Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Update: I completely reinstalled Ubuntu to the latest 26.04 but I am still having the same problem where the App Center cannot find WRLDesktop… would really love to use the CAT features for POTA hunting…
@KC1TYJ Im not sure why the app center (which is for snaps) is opening or trying to open the cat control app. I’m running ubuntu as well (and what i use to build the cat control app and the desktop app for linux) and dont have this issue. I’m assuming its most likely a setting somewhere on the OS. After clicking the log in button in the cat control app it should just open a browser tab to the web app for you to log in, then you should see the modal, shown below, pop up and you should just need to click the ‘open xdg-open’ button an it redirect to the cat control app and log you in.
I dont use snaps at all though in ubuntu. Doing a quick google search on “how to stop app center from trying to open a program, ubuntu” shows you can disable snap autostart buy running the following in terminal:
Disable the snap autostart helper
sudo systemctl --user disable snap-userd-autostart.service
Maybe try that, to be honest im not really sure what else to try.
Send me a screenshot of what pops up instead of the modal i showed in the screenshot above and i’ll try and do some research on how to disable it.
Thanks & 73
Brad K4AZE
[Resending this since I received a response indicating that I can only post one image. I’ve merged them into one.]
Thank you for your continued help with this.
I complete removed snap from the OS. However, I’m still getting the same error messages (see pictures below).
I installed the Debian package directly through the apt command line installer. Is there another way that I should install it?
@KC1TYJ What happens when you click the ‘Open WRLDesktop’ button?
it should be installed via the terminal with:
sudo dpkg -i packageName.deb
Thanks & 73
Brad K4AZE
@KC1TYJ Ok so after talking with another user that was having this issue. We figured out the problem appears to be exclusively with Google Chrome. If you set Firefox to the default browser, and repeat the process, Firefox will prompt to associate the token with the application (both cat control and desktop app). Once authorized, you can reopen Chrome and set it back to default, and now both applications open and seem to work as expected.
Give this a try.
Thanks & 73
Brad K4AZE
Just tried reinstalling using dpkg instead of apt, but the same results. After clicking the modal, this is what pops up.
Maybe I need to associate it with xdg somehow?
@KC1TYJ see my message above
Hmmm…
I had initially tried this with Firefox and associated it with /usr/bin/world-radio-league-desktop but the WRLDesktop app just stayed in “click here to sign in”.
Do you happen to have the specific steps he used?
@KC1TYJ yea the steps were exactly as i mentioned before:
If you set Firefox to the default browser, and repeat the process open the app, click login in the app, sign in, then it opens the app), Firefox will prompt to associate the token with the application (both cat control and desktop app). Once authorized, you can reopen Chrome and set it back to default
Thank you for your help. I was eventually able to make this work on version 0.1.0. I ran it from the command line and realized that I needed to update the permissions (which was apparent in the error message on the command line, though it ran fine from the app icon). chmod 4755 /opt/WRLDesktop/chrome-sandbox
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