Anydesk fails to close on quit

[flathub]

Anydesk fails to close on quit

[wjt]

@Surendrajat I think this is the same thing you reported in #33? I don't actually use Anydesk (I just maintain the bot that updates it and smoke-test the PRs it generates) so investigation welcome!

[Surendrajat]

@wjt Yes. Sounds like the same thing.
In #33(if you can reopen) my last comment points out one possible reason. --local-service is nowhere in official docs and I'm not sure why flatpak version of it spawns services like that. According to official docs --service is the way to do it.

[wjt]

The string --local-service doesn't appear anywhere in the Flatpak packaging.

You could try running with flatpak run --log-session-bus --log-system-bus com.anydesk.Anydesk to see if it's trying and failing to access some D-Bus names and hitting some poorly-tested codepath?

[wjt]

I do see from your comment that the --service process is running as root:

That's never going to work with Flatpak.

[Surendrajat]

@wjt okay so I stopped that system service run by root and started Anydesk again. This is what I observed(with official .deb pkg):

1. anydesk --service is system-wide autostarting service and client(app) uses it always, by default. Comes with .deb package at least.
2. anydesk --local-service is started by the client in case it can't connect to the above service(as in flatpak), and it stops(mostly) with client termination. It doesn't support autostart and hence few of useful features anydesk offers can't be used. It's not documented either.
   

Now, even though sometimes this client created local-service does not stop with it, it doesn't consume any CPU and is not noticeable (which is huge in case of flatpak).

As suggested, I can go into debugging and all but for the time being I'm sticking to the official .deb package as I need that system-wide service for auto-start and unattended access and I'm not sure how I can achieve that behavior with flatpak.

[eszlari]

Seems like the autostart issue can only be solved programmatically:
flatpak/flatpak#118