From 5f96d95ab4310ff5291629862874086fb1fe7bf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brendan Forster <brendan@github.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 13:52:37 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add additional validation to find the app-specific argument
 we require (#687 #689)

---
 app/src/main-process/main.ts | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/src/main-process/main.ts b/app/src/main-process/main.ts
index 114480145f1..3c2e290eabb 100644
--- a/app/src/main-process/main.ts
+++ b/app/src/main-process/main.ts
@@ -269,6 +269,16 @@ function handlePossibleProtocolLauncherArgs(args: ReadonlyArray<string>) {
     } else {
       log.error(`Malformed launch arguments received: ${args}`)
     }
+  } else if (__LINUX__) {
+    // we expect this call to have several parameters before the URL we want,
+    // so we should filter out the program name as well as any parameters that
+    // look like arguments to Electron
+    const argsWithoutParameters = args.filter(
+      a => !a.endsWith('github-desktop') && !a.startsWith('--')
+    )
+    if (argsWithoutParameters.length > 0) {
+      handleAppURL(argsWithoutParameters[0])
+    }
   } else if (args.length > 1) {
     handleAppURL(args[1])
   }