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Regarding login issues: when run under system electron (the version doesn't matter) - slack doesn't create ~/.config/Slack/Singleton{Cookie,Lock,Socket}. And then doesn't detect that another instance is already running.

The code that should create them is from Chromium/electron - nothing specific to Slack: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/app#apprequestsingleinstancelockadditionaldata - the only question is why Slack isn't calling it. Looking at the code extracted from app.asar, it at least depends on app.isPackaged: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/app#appispackaged-readonly

In current electron-desktop:

$ cat /lib/slack/version
25.2.0

Shouldn't this package depend on (and run) electron25?

No you are not. Install slack-desktop, login with that one, than get back to slack-electron and you will be logged in. At least this works for me sometimes.

Am I the only one suffering from the issue of logging in to a workspace open a new Slack instance?

Sorry I wasn't clear enough, with slack-desktop I could always login without problem. With electron version, I could not. So I would login with the desktop version, save the ~.config/Slack dir, then install electron version and I would be logged in already. This stopped working yesterday, but this morning it works again. So really hard to debug what's going on I guess.

I'm successfully using slack-desktop so far (thanks to your hint mierota) - was it just then switching back to slack-electron (I haven't tried) which stopped working, or some time after installation & sign-in slack-desktop stopped working too?

No I didn't. I was able to login through slack-desktop and get back to electron version, but now even this doesn't work. Can't login at all.

pacman -Q | grep elect

electron 1:25-1 electron21 21.4.4-1 electron24 24.6.2-1 electron25 25.2.1-1

I've updated the package to run with an up-to-date electron version (25).

I currently don't have time to investigate the login issues further at the moment, let me know if you find a solution.

Cannot login with this version (4.33.73-1) or the older ones. Had to install slack-desktop, login, and then again install slack-electron which then didn't ask me to login (I was logged in with slack-desktop version).

Found Slack (unusually) logged out this morning; logging back in through the browser as required doesn't seem to trigger anything, and manually clicking 'open in app' just launches another instance also not signed in.

Not sure if this is an app/electron issue not picking up the 'magic link' (grep processes for 'slack://' or 'magic-link' while it's trying to launch) or a server-side issue?

I've tried with electron22 (v22.3.16) as it was and also electron[25] (v25.2.1) with the same result.