What app you recommend for putting Google Drive on Tumbleweed? I see various options when I search. I’m happy to get a paid version if it’s better than all the open source versions. I’m a newbie so I mainly use GUI apps.
I want to download multiple files from my Google Drive to my laptop without zipping.
When using KDE Plasma, simply install the kaccounts-providers package and add the Google/Drive account via systemsettings online accounts.
Then you only need to install kio-gdrive and you can access your GDrive via dolphin.
I’m using Gnome. Any options for Gnome users?
Please, please, say so in your first post. Then people do not have to give advice on wrong assumptions. All spoiled time for those people and also for you…
Whoops, my bad, thanks for the reminder.
@invalid_user_name Just add via settings → online accounts → Connect an Account.
I feel stupid now. I installed rclone and after a lot of back and forth got it working. Ok, it mounts (fuse) google drive so it’s easy to access via cli as well. I guess this solution doesn’t provide any easy access to files in gdrive from cli, right?
Do you mean via kio-gdrive? As far as i know, this package only enables graphical tools to access the GDrive. From the homepage:
KIO GDrive is a KIO slave that enables KIO-aware applications (such as Dolphin, Kate or Gwenview) to access and edit Google Drive files on the cloud.
KIO GDrive - KDE Community Wiki
I didn’t dig into it if it also enables the CLI way…
I tried it a few times and it never made a connection to Google. Timed out. I’ll research.
@invalid_user_name open a terminal and run;
WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink gnome-control-center online-accounts
I showed a # of options in my post 
The only other post by you I see in this thread is deleted. Am I not seeing another post?
Will this command make some permanent changes to my system? Any changes that could cause issues in the future?
@invalid_user_name Nope, that’s just setting those variables in the moment and in that terminal session.
If you add that command to your .profile in /home/username, it will execute every time you log on. These lines are in my .profile to change my default editor setting and some HISTORY settings at login.
> grep '^export' /home/gene/.profile
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '
export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
export HISTSIZE=100000
Regards,
Gene
Cool. Thanks. That helps.
Here’s what came back:
advait@localhost:~> sudo WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink gnome-control-center online-accounts
[sudo] password for root:
Running gnome-control-center is only supported under GNOME and Unity, exiting
advait@localhost:~>
I thought I was using Gnome. Hmmm… Curious. Maybe Tumbleweed Gnome not recognized as standard Gnome…?
Why are you usign sudo?
You should go back to what I said in another thread of yours.
All things in the desktop are of the individual user. Each user can do those things different. Even if you think you have only one user, it is still the domain of that user. And all configuring. tinkering, whatever is thus to be done as that user.
The big, big warning is always: do not do things as root that can be done without root privileges. But now you are even poking around in the domain of root. Who knows what you are changing there and what problems root can get in the future?
As long as you do not really understand what a multi-user multi-session environment means, you will produce these self-inflicting problems.
Sorry if sound harsh. But it seems that you are very willing to learn about Linux. And thus I assume it is worth to point you to basic understandings, that will be more important then just getting a few bells and whistles on the screen to your personal taste.
Oh. Good tip. I’m in the habit of using sudo for no particular reason. But I’ll switch to not using it unless needed. Thanks.