Spicetify breaks on multi user systems sharing the same spotify installation (/opt/spotify/Apps)

[zjeffer]

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ℹ Environment / Computer Info

- Spotify version: `1.2.59.514`
- Spicetify version: `2.39.5`
- Arch Linux
- Hyprland
- Spotify and spicetify-cli were both installed through the AUR.

📝 Description

I have 2 users: one for work and one personal user. My work user is also in my personal user's group, so it has access to all group-accessible files.
I have followed the wiki's instructions to set the correct permissons in /opt/spotify/Apps, but these seem to get overwritten to 700 by spicetify at some point? This causes spicetify commands to not work for user 1 if I ran them before on user 2. Spotify also launches with a blank screen for the other user, I assume because it doesn't have access to the Apps folder.

How do other people manage this kind of setup? I'd like to be able to share the same config between both users without having to run any spicetify commands every time I login to the other user.

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After running spicetify backup apply with user 1:

[rxri]

Please install spotify per-user then, and not system-wide. This is not something we should manage in our code.

[zjeffer]

Can't spicetify manage it by not changing the permissions of /opt/spotify/Apps? Why does it do that?

[rxri]

you can chmod/change perms manually to 770 or something. this is kinda something that shouldn't be by default bc it can create another sort of issues. One spicetify installation for multiple users is not supported.

[zjeffer]

That indeed works. I don't see why spicetify currently sets it 700 when applying, though? Why not 750, so that it can at least be read by other users of the same group?

I'd rather not manage Spotify on a per-user basis, I like doing everything through my system package manager.

[rxri]

That indeed works. I don't see why spicetify currently sets it 700 when applying, though? Why not 750, so that it can at least be read by other users of the same group?

To be honest, I don't know. khanhas must have made it this way for some reason or another.
https://github.com/spicetify/cli/blob/main/src/utils/utils.go#L90

[rxri]

we could change it to 750 ig?

[zjeffer]

Do you mind if I make a PR where I change all these to 750?

[rxri]

feel free

[zjeffer]

Actually to make backup work too, it should be 770 (because it has to be writable). I'll look into this

[rxri]

Actually to make backup work too, it should be 770 (because it has to be writable). I'll look into this

ummm, yeah well, you would need to check for folder name then i guess because we set 700 to everything