Fix Ente Auth Not Starting on Wayland with "No GL implementation is available"

On CachyOS under Wayland (other Arch-based distros should be the same), I ran into the same problem with the AppImage, AUR and flatpak versions of Ente Auth. I searched the whole web and found no solution, and finally worked out a perfect one myself.

First, the AppImage version of Ente Auth would not run; sometimes it did run, but the page was blank and only showed: No GL implementation is available

Running it from the command line gives the following errors:

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./ente-auth.AppImage
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(io.ente.auth:61007): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 10:13:50.015: gdk_gl_context_make_current: assertion 'GDK_IS_GL_CONTEXT
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(context)' failed
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** (io.ente.auth:61007): WARNING **: 10:13:50.015: Failed to initialize GLArea: No GL implementation is availa
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ble
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** (io.ente.auth:61007): WARNING **: 10:13:50.015: gtk.dart: failed to call method: No engine to send to
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** (io.ente.auth:61007): WARNING **: 10:13:50.019: gtk.dart: failed to call method: No engine to send to

Solution:

Extract the AppImage file

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./ente-auth.AppImage --appimage-extract

Run the extracted AppImage file

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./squashfs-root/enteauth

It reports the following error:

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./squashfs-root/enteauth: error while loading shared libraries: libayatana-appindicator3.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Now we have a direction

Install the missing dependency: libayatana-appindicator3.so.1

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sudo pacman -S libayatana-appindicator

Run ./squashfs-root/enteauth again and it works!

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