Things I have tried
I found multiple forum posts on similar issues and then found Amir’s great blog on setting up Linux access to obsidian://… URLs. Thanks Amir
I also found this thread on investigating the libva error but it’s a very deep rabbit hole and I didn’t get very far. libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error,driver_name=(null) · Issue #1349 · intel/media-driver · GitHub
xdg-open obsidian://open?vault=infrastructure&file=Test
This opens the correct Obsidian Vault. Unfortunately,
It fails to open the target file
The following log messages and error show up
Loading updated app package
/home/username/.config/obsidian/obsidian-1.1.9.asar
Checking for update using Github
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex()
failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[27924:1225/200238.868244:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(188)]
Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
My Environment:
- Google Cloud VM
- Ubuntu 22.04
- KDE Plasma desktop
- ~/.config/applications/obsidian.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Obsidian
Exec=/opt/obsidian %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/opt/obsidian-icon.png
StartupWMClass=obsidian
X-AppImage-Version=1.0.3
Comment=Obsidian
Categories=Office;
MimeType=text/html;x-scheme-handler/obsidian;
Note: /opt/obsidian => /opt/Obsidian-1.0.3.AppImage
What I’m trying to do
I’m trying to get Obsidian URLs working on Linux.
Eg. obsidian://open?vault=infrastructure&file=Test (infrastructure/Test.md exists)
xdg-open obsidian://open?vault=infrastructure&file=Test
Successfully opens Obsidian to the correct Vault but then fails to open the file Test.md
Here’s Amir’s great blog on setting up Linux access to obsidian://… URLs. Thanks Amir