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I bought Minecraft for my son and I've been extremely frustrated by this requirement and that there's seemingly no way to stay signed in— I've had to print out

I bought Minecraft for my son and I've been extremely frustrated by this requirement and that there's seemingly no way to stay signed in— I've had to print out my MS account details and tape them to his computer so he can sign in whenever he needs.

esskay 4y ago
I'd recommend using a launcher, it stops that happening. I use Prism Launcher and after the initial sign in about a year ago I've never been asked to log in again even after going a few months of not playing it.
teekert 4y ago
If you are on Linux, this is a known issue, I think you need Gnome Keyring installed (on any DE) to avoid this behavior.
- mikepurvis 4y ago
  Okay! Thanks for this. Yeah it's on a bog standard Ubuntu 20.04 install; I didn't realise this might be fixable by installing additional software.
  - teekert 4y ago
    Fwiw I think standard 20.04 already has gnome keyring. As suggested here, try a launcher perhaps? I think the one in the store has been working fine for me.
    - mikepurvis 4y ago
      I'm using the official Minecraft launcher, likely from the snap store? In any case, knowing that this is fixable, I will take a closer look when I have a chance. Ironically, for all this trouble, at least we were able to get Minecraft running at all on Ubuntu— on a separate Windows 10 machine I couldn't get it going at all. Might try again at some point with a VM so that we can play together.
      - bscphil 4y ago
        Complete speculation on my part, but I wonder if maybe snap applications have trouble accessing the keyring from inside the sandbox.
amlib 4y ago
I've worked around this by printing the command line while minecraft is open with something like: cat /proc/$(pgrep java)/cmdline | sed -e "s/\x00/ /g" And then pasting that sucker in a script wrapped around a .desktop file and from then on only launching that. Opens just as fast as it did back in 2010 and I don't need to open the launcher unless I need to update the game or something like that. I only play on single-player, haven't tested on multiplayer. The tokens might expire after some time and thus require you to "reseed" the command line from time to time.
platz 4y ago
use multimc
- mort96 4y ago
  Wasn't there a lot of drama around MultiMC recently?
  - tmtvl 4y ago
    You may be thinking of the PolyMC->Prism Launcher transition.

esskay 4y ago

I'd recommend using a launcher, it stops that happening. I use Prism Launcher and after the initial sign in about a year ago I've never been asked to log in again even after going a few months of not playing it.

teekert 4y ago

If you are on Linux, this is a known issue, I think you need Gnome Keyring installed (on any DE) to avoid this behavior.

mikepurvis 4y ago
Okay! Thanks for this. Yeah it's on a bog standard Ubuntu 20.04 install; I didn't realise this might be fixable by installing additional software.
- teekert 4y ago
  Fwiw I think standard 20.04 already has gnome keyring. As suggested here, try a launcher perhaps? I think the one in the store has been working fine for me.
  - mikepurvis 4y ago
    I'm using the official Minecraft launcher, likely from the snap store? In any case, knowing that this is fixable, I will take a closer look when I have a chance. Ironically, for all this trouble, at least we were able to get Minecraft running at all on Ubuntu— on a separate Windows 10 machine I couldn't get it going at all. Might try again at some point with a VM so that we can play together.
    - bscphil 4y ago
      Complete speculation on my part, but I wonder if maybe snap applications have trouble accessing the keyring from inside the sandbox.

amlib 4y ago

I've worked around this by printing the command line while minecraft is open with something like: cat /proc/$(pgrep java)/cmdline | sed -e "s/\x00/ /g" And then pasting that sucker in a script wrapped around a .desktop file and from then on only launching that. Opens just as fast as it did back in 2010 and I don't need to open the launcher unless I need to update the game or something like that. I only play on single-player, haven't tested on multiplayer. The tokens might expire after some time and thus require you to "reseed" the command line from time to time.

platz 4y ago

use multimc

mort96 4y ago
Wasn't there a lot of drama around MultiMC recently?
- tmtvl 4y ago
  You may be thinking of the PolyMC->Prism Launcher transition.