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@dcelasun better-sqlite3.tgz sha256 have changed.
i install this patch with:

paru -G openai-codex-desktop
cd openai-codex-desktop
patch -p1 < openai-codex-desktop.patch
updpkgsums
makepkg -si

your patch work for me. thanks

Tested the patch, works great with it applied

@latte_macchiato sorry, I forgot to include it in the diff. Should be fixed now, same link.

EDIT: The diff was badly formatted, now it's fixed.

@dcelasun Seeing the same thing, but your patch does not build for me. Where did you get patch-linux-opaque-bg.mjs from? It's not in the patch you linked.

Anyone else see a flickering background / rendering artifacts on the sidebar? The dmg image assumes macOS vibrancy support for transparency effects, which fail to render on Linux (at least for me with Wayland+Nvidia).

I have a patched PKGBUILD below that forces a fixed background for the window, which eliminates the issue.

I also took the opportunity to upgrade to electron42 since that's available in the official repos and electron39 isn't. better-sqlite3 needs a small patch (see below) for compatibility, but it's just a few lines and should be temporary.

Finally, there is also a fix for the generic app icon shown for the Codex Desktop window. Electron unfortunately ignores --class and derives the Wayland app_id (and X11 WM_CLASS) from the binary name which is just electron here since the path is /usr/lib/electron42/electron. The solution is to create a symlink named codex and we get the proper icon :)

The diff is too long for an AUR comment, so here's a link: https://gist.github.com/dcelasun/8d002bc05d32491204c0bf695bc6b3d6

@parsiad what do you think, can you include these changes in the package?

@yanwuhuan: Good catch. Fixed!

Seems previous Codex.zip causes update fail, show file error but not re-download new one.

Change each Codex.zip in PKGBUILD to Codex-${pkgver}.zip, will be OK.

@cangzhu This issue has been resolved in the latest version 6.513.20950-1 of openai-codex-desktop. Many thanks to you for the helpful suggestion.

@jiao77 I ran into the same issue, and I fixed it with the following steps.

• Completely quit Codex Desktop first.

• Kill any remaining Codex Desktop processes:

ps -aux | grep codex

• Back up the desktop app state:

ts=$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)
mkdir -p ~/.config/codex-desktop-backups
cp -a ~/.config/Codex ~/.config/codex-desktop-backups/Codex.$ts

• Move away only the Electron frontend cache and session state:

mv ~/.config/Codex/Cache ~/.config/Codex/Cache.bak-$ts 2>/dev/null
mv ~/.config/Codex/"Code Cache" ~/.config/Codex/"Code Cache.bak-$ts" 2>/dev/null
mv ~/.config/Codex/"Session Storage" ~/.config/Codex/"Session Storage.bak-$ts" 2>/dev/null
mv ~/.config/Codex/"Local Storage" ~/.config/Codex/"Local Storage.bak-$ts" 2>/dev/null

mv ~/.config/Codex/Partitions/codex-browser-app/Cache ~/.config/Codex/Partitions/codex-browser-app/Cache.bak-$ts 2>/dev/null
mv ~/.config/Codex/Partitions/codex-browser-app/"Code Cache" ~/.config/Codex/Partitions/codex-browser-app/"Code Cache.bak-$ts" 2>/dev/null
mv ~/.config/Codex/Partitions/codex-browser-app/"Session Storage" ~/.config/Codex/Partitions/codex-browser-app/"Session Storage.bak-$ts" 2>/dev/null
mv ~/.config/Codex/Partitions/codex-browser-app/"Local Storage" ~/.config/Codex/Partitions/codex-browser-app/"Local Storage.bak-$ts" 2>/dev/null

• Start Codex Desktop again:

codex-desktop

This only clears the Codex Desktop Electron frontend cache/session state. It should keep your login state and Codex CLI configuration intact.

For the Codex Pets feature, I made an X11 compatibility workaround for the issue where the pet cannot be clicked or dragged after being opened/woken up.

Details are available here: https://github.com/Rebybyx/codex-pets-x11-fix