[Linux] wallet sign on screen needs a Cancel button..

[ronohara]

Discussed in #1677

^{Originally posted by ronohara September 10, 2024}
If you start the Linux cake wallet and you have used a wallet in the past, it offers you a login screen .. but I have broken my install and can not login ...

I need to Cancel the login just like I can in the normal Monero GUI wallet. At the moment because of my broken installation I can't even restore the wallet from seed words. I have removed and reinstalled cake wallet, but it has remembered the od wallet name somehow - and I can't see how to erase that wallet completely.

If I select Cancel, it should go to a screen like the normal Monero GUI which then offers you a choice of:

[ronohara]

This is the screen that needs a cancel button.

[ronohara]

If I can make my installation completely forget about cake wallet (remove everything) and then start again - and restore the wallet ... that would be a workaround... but how do you do that,

[tuxpizza]

Under ~/.local/share/cake_wallet (Or ~/.var/app/com.cakewallet.CakeWallet/data/cake_wallet/ if using flatpak)
there's a file called "shared_preferences.json"

Open that, and find the field "flutter.current_wallet_name":"Wallet". You can change the "Wallet" part to the name of a different wallet. (will probably be rono3 for you)

And under ~/Documents/cake_wallet/wallets/monero
You can delete the files of any specific Monero wallet.

Also, no need to open this issue on all of our channels. A single support ticket would suffice.

[ronohara]

Ok ... the file is actually here: /.local/share/com.example.cake_wallet$ vi shared_preferences.json

I changed the "flutter.current_wallet_name" to the wallet I actually want (a BTCwallet) and it lets me sign in.

But immediately shows a different wallet - an XMR wallet. There was a brief message about changes to BIP0039 with the current release .. but I didn't read it properly.

If I go into settings and wallet. Then select the BTC wallet I want I get this error message.

If I test the seed words using tools from https://github.com/bluescan/bip39tools the final seed word given to me when I created the wallet is an invalid checksum. I can use those tools to find the correct checksum of course.

There is a small amount of BTC in the wallet ... currently inaccessible ... the wallet files themselves are intact.

[ronohara]

I will close this and open a bug about the BIP0039 problem

[ronohara]

Thie wallet was created using 4.15.3 .. it looks like the transition to BIP0039 wallets breaks existing wallets.

The change is described hereL https://cakelabs.com/news/cake-wallet-adds-bip39/

See more details in #1681