Signal Desktop unable to send in previously functional version; Wayland support broken in later versions

[quinndiggity]

Unable to send messages on Signal Desktop - in recent Signal Desktop releases Linux/Wayland support was broken, forcing users to pin to a previous version (or be entirely unable to use the application). Messages (but not reactions) are now being rejected by the Signal service for the functional application version, which is preventing use entirely again.

[quinndiggity]

other users are experiencing the issue as well #5741 (comment)

[quinndiggity]

#5719

[scottnonnenberg-signal]

@quinndiggity Can you say more about the workarounds available today? Perhaps the Xwayland compatibility stuff can make the latest version work?

Also, 5741 doesn't seem related at all.

[pm4rcin]

For me Signal works with XWayland just fine. I run it on KDE as well as on dwl 0.3 (based on wlroots) on Arch. I haven't tried calls recently but messages work fine for me. What are you using @quinndiggity?

[somoant]

The same for me (Fedora 35, Gnome 41), I used the 5.26 version because of wayland support broken and is not possible anymore

[somoant]

Looks like a fix in the electron was merged to main branch

[somoant]

it's working again from 5.38 version, can be closed

[quinndiggitypolymath]

Hooray 🥳