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Hi,

I am using Protonmail bridge to sync my Protonmail account with Thunderbird but it will not start automatically. Has any one got this working in LM 20.04.
There is a setting in Protonmail bridge to ‘Automatically start bridge’. This is set. it’s also enabled in ‘Startup Applications' in Linux Mint settings.

Thanks.

I've just encountered this as well. About the nearest i can tell, it started with the last Bridge update (1.6.3; files dated 2/10/21). It's not completely clear to me, but it seems that either this update or the one prior added the "proton-bridge-launcher" whereas previously in /usr/lib/protonmail/bridge there was only "proton-bridge" (well, and some support directories).

The error I find is

Feb 23 08:54:26 canis cinnamon-session[1430]: WARNING: t+1.73776s: Failed to start app: Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process “/usr/lib/protonmail/bridge/protonmail-bridge” (No such file or directory)

Permissions and ownership seem fine (and are the same as they've been - looking back through timeshift).

This must not be particularly widespread, for I found very little looking about online.

It's not a BIG deal to launch it after logging in, but one still wonders....!

I found the problem - at least on my system (LM 19.3, Cinnamon).

The file (note space in name)...

~/.config/autostart/ProgonMail Bridge.desktop

contained the lines...

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=ProtonMail Bridge
Exec="/usr/lib/protonmail/bridge/protonmail-bridge" "--no-window"
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

however the file listed on the 'Exec' line does not exist
changing the 'Exec' line to...

Exec="/usr/lib/protonmail/bridge/proton-bridge-launcher" "--no-window"

works like a charm

It appears in looking through my timeshift backups that the name changed from "protonmail-bridge" to "proton-bridge" around 2021-02-17 (last update).