There was another minor update just now 2025-12-11, for which there was no announcement either. I did both 2025-12-08 and 2025-12-11. But the latter just broke signal-desktop when going from 7.81.0-1 to 7.82.0-2. I had to relink my device.
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That has absolutely nothing to do with signal breaking. However, I’m actually on the testing branch I just realized, so my report doesn’t belong in this thread. Deleted it, sorry!
Edit: No I still think it’s on the stable branch. Downgraded to stable, but even there, signal-desktop version is at v7.82, s.a. Branch compare for Manjaro
And this update, even though it somehow doesn’t include signal-desktop in the detailed changes list, upgraded from 7.81 to 7.82 and deleted all my chats. I wonder what’s going on.
@phil294 Since the same version of signal-desktop is available in all branches, I’ve restored your deleted reply and moved everything to a dedicated topic for further troubleshooting.
Notice that I’ve also removed your screenshot of text.
I remember reading about Signal Desktop a while back - something with using a portable device to move chats between devices - that reading suggested that Signal Desktop enhanced the security, to avoid a malicious copy and transport of chats for decryption on another device.
As I recall, Signal Desktop will query if it cannot read the message store and give you the opportunity to either stop or wipe the store.
If you choose continue - the only way of getting the messages back, is by re-connecting your mobile device.
Signal-desktop is inherited from Arch and latest version was released 2025-12-11
$ pamac info signal-desktop
Name : signal-desktop
Version : 7.82.0-1
Description : Signal Private Messenger for Linux
URL : https://signal.org
Packager : Christian Heusel <gromit@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Thu 11 Dec 2025 12:56:31 GMT
Well, maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t.
What evidence do you have to suggest it doesn’t?
Signal-Desktop 7.82.0-1 seems to work as expected on the three Official Manjaro editions – GNOME, Plasma and XFCE – I will not test beyond that with Community editions.
These three successes are sufficient to indicate there is no widespread issue with signal-desktop – the problem must therefore be with your specific environment.
I can only guess which OS you are using – and it’s current state – as you haven’t provided useful detail. System information is usually requested for each Support topic:
inxi -xv8
Please provide it according to forum presentational guidelines. From that point, we might be able to help you further.
In the meantime, please create a new User account (for testing purposes) and log into that – the point is to establish whether or not your issues persist in a fresh environment. Report back with your findings.