Vivaldi executes wrong xdg-open (Tested with spotify)

FrankV

Running Arch Linux, KDE Plasma 6.2.4, snap Vivaldi 7.0.3495.20

Wanting to open Spotify links on my desktop app, I click the button to do so on the website:

And this window pops up.

Clicking 'open xdg-open' does nothing, which is weird, because if I do xdg-open spotify://track/4uLU6hMCjMI75M1A2tKUQC on my terminal, it works and opens Spotify on the right song.

So, using strace -e execve -f -p <PID> to track all the commands executed, I found these:

execve("/snap/vivaldi/104/usr/sbin/xdg-open", ["xdg-open", "spotify:track:2noFPSXtNacxDVlUn1"...], 0x3984001db400 /* 112 vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

execve("/snap/vivaldi/104/usr/bin/xdg-open", ["xdg-open", "spotify:track:2noFPSXtNacxDVlUn1"...], 0x3984001db400 /* 112 vars */) = 0

Which tells me that the snap Vivaldi I'm using is, for some reason, not finding xdg-open. Indeed, when looking at the files, I see this:

But now I wonder if I could do something like this:

execve("/usr/bin/xdg-open", ["xdg-open", "spotify://..."], ...)

So, now I know why this isn't working, but I have no idea how to fix it. Any thoughts?

fredallas

Hello @FrankV

I think this might be a known issue according to this link https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Spotify-URIs-do-not-work/td-p/6117415

Have you tried reinstalling/updating Spotify?

Fred D.

FrankV

@fredallas I am on the latest spotify release from the AUR. I have ran yay -R spotify and yay -S spotify to reinstall, yet the issue persists

Trying it with Firefox by putting spotify://track/4uLU6hMCjMI75M1A2tKUQC on the url bar does open Spotify and plays the song. Doing it in Vivaldi does nothing.

fredallas

@FrankV

I do not seem to be able to reproduce the issue in my computer. I am using Ubuntu MATE and I installed Vivaldi using the .deb file instead of the snap. Not sure if the issue might be related to the snap. Is there a way you may try installing Vivaldi using the .rpm instead if it is not very complicated with your current setup? https://vivaldi.com/download/

Regards,
Fred D.

FrankV

@fredallas

I've uninstalled the snap Vivaldi, ran sudo pacman -Syu vivaldi, and now instead of showing 'Open xdg-open', it shows as 'Open Spotify', so the issue really is related to the snap version of Vivaldi.