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Any tips on running the time tracker in wayland?

Hello guys! I am quite new to the Arch and Linux in general and currently use Wayland with Hyprland. I have read that Hyprland does not work if I am not using Wayland and I also read somewhere that if you downgrade to version 5.8.0.31, this still supports Wayland. I am not sure how to do that or if it even works because the app forces you to update. Can any one help me?

Thank you for the reminder, @loziniak, I forgot to reset the pkgrel, I hope to do this during the next update.

@atjcraig, I think the @loziniak's message was addressed to me, the maintainer, who released a new update.

Thanks loziniak, I updated my comment

About pkgrel:

"When a new version of the software is released, this value must be reset to 1"

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#pkgrel

PR submitted for latest version (5.8.0.35)

Updated PKGBUILD in case anyone needs it now:

# Maintainer: Yurii Kolesnykov <root@yurikoles.com>
#
# PRs are welcome here: https://github.com/yurikoles-aur/upwork
#

pkgname=upwork
_pkgname='Upwork'
pkgver=5.8.0.35
_hashver='42e992f623e44665'
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Track your time for Hourly Payment Protection. Stay connected.'
arch=(x86_64)
url='https://www.upwork.com/ab/downloads/?os=linux'
license=(custom)
depends=(alsa-lib gtk3 libxss nss)
conflicts=(upwork-beta)
_useragent="User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0"
_rawver=${pkgver//./_}
DLAGENTS=("https::/usr/bin/curl --tlsv1.3 -H ${_useragent// /\\ } %u -o %o")
source=(https://upwork-usw2-desktopapp.upwork.com/binaries/v${_rawver}_${_hashver}/upwork_${pkgver}_amd64.deb
        LICENSE)
sha256sums=('4aebf6dd32fa9791e190e4914f9e8ba45459271b922d855cd6e4fa85ef23eced'
            '793d8d7bc0f088c48798bda3d5483972636c6b8c5dcd9aeaf85411f7d4547b38')

prepare() {
    bsdtar -xpf data.tar.xz
}

package() {
    # Base
    local _optdir="${pkgdir}"/opt/${_pkgname}

    install -dm755 "${_optdir}"
    cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership opt/${_pkgname}/* "${_optdir}"

    # Code ref: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/master/packages/app-builder-lib/templates/linux/after-install.tpl
    # SUID chrome-sandbox for Electron 5+
    test -e "${_optdir}"/chrome-sandbox && chmod 4755 "${_optdir}"/chrome-sandbox || true

    # Exec
    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/
    ln -s /opt/${_pkgname}/${pkgname} "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/

    # Menu
    install -Dm644 usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop

    # Icons
    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/share
    cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership usr/share/icons "${pkgdir}"/usr/share

    # License
    install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE
}

Many people had a problem with logging into the app, where the browser is used in process. Somehow the scheme handler wasn'picked up by the browser (Firefox in my case), and the solution was to use xdg-open:

https://community.upwork.com/t5/Support-Forum/Not-possible-to-use-upwork-desktop-app-after-an-update/m-p/1469529/highlight/true#M109896

@PositivePulse, you shouldn't have to edit your GDM config just to switch to Xorg. Just click the gear icon and select the Gnome on Xorg session.

Shame how they completely disable the functionality on Xorg now though. Before it was working fine on KDE with a few workarounds.

@PositivePulse Feel free to let upwork know about this issue on their support forum.

temporary workaround is to switch to xorg (this is huge ....) on my system it was a matter of editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncommeting WaylandEnable=false. After sudo systemctl restart gdm, screenshots work. But I can not stress enough how disappointed I am