Both setup scripts ended by telling you to load the folder unpacked, which is
the one install that cannot update itself - and the policy install they moved
to next does nothing on an unmanaged machine. Enrolment is the step that
actually matters: with it, the extension arrives from the Admin console already
force-installed, and there is nothing else to configure on the box.
So step 7 now asks for an enrolment token instead. The Windows script elevates
itself for it - the token is machine-scoped, and that is the only UAC prompt in
the whole install.
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Both installers ended by telling you to load the folder unpacked, which is the
one install that can never update itself. They now offer the policy install as
a last step instead, and only fall back to those instructions when it is
declined or fails.
Windows writes to the user's own policy hive rather than HKLM, so the step
needs no elevation and no separate admin shell; -Scope Machine is still there
for every-account installs. Linux gets the counterpart script — a managed
policy file under /etc, which is root-only because Chrome reads policy from
nowhere else on that platform.
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The clicker had no Linux support at all: pygetwindow has no X11 backend, so
_other_activate returned "window management is unsupported" and every step
failed before it could click. focus.py now has a third backend that raises the
browser with xdotool and reads the focused window's WM_CLASS to verify it came
forward - the same activate-then-confirm shape as the macOS and Windows paths.
setup-linux.sh mirrors setup-windows.bat with apt instead of winget. Three
things are specific to this platform rather than incidental:
- Node comes from NodeSource. Pi OS ships one too old for Next 16, and the LTS
line is also what better-sqlite3 publishes prebuilt arm64 binaries for.
- Python dependencies go in a virtualenv. Pi OS Bookworm enforces PEP 668, so
pip into the system interpreter fails with externally-managed-environment.
- Autostart uses an XDG ~/.config/autostart entry, the direct analogue of the
Windows Startup folder: no sudo, and it runs inside the graphical session,
which the clicker needs for DISPLAY.
Wayland is called out in four places - the session guard, diagnose.py, the
installer and both READMEs - because Pi OS on a Pi 5 defaults to it and the
clicker simply cannot work there. Wayland does not let one client synthesise
input into another, so this is a switch-to-X11 situation, not a bug to fix.
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