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G Desktop Suite – A Google Drive Desktop App Made With Electron

Access Google Drive Using G Desktop Suite In Linux

By sk
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Google has not yet released any official Google Drive client for Linux. Despite the multiple requests from many Linux users, Google doesn't care to release an official Linux client for Google drive. There are currently no planned offerings from Google for a Linux client. As of now, you can only use the browser-based drive in Linux.

Fortunately, there are some unofficial Google drive clients for Linux have been developed. But they didn't seem to provide any consistent help for a long time. Over the period of time, some of them are either discontinued or the development has been ceased. It seems only a few unofficial client applications are working now. Today, I stumbled upon yet another Google drive desktop app called G Desktop Suite.

G Desktop Suite is a desktop wrapper for Google Drive made with ElectronJS. You don't have to visit https://drive.google.com from your browser any more. Just log in to your Google drive from G Desktop Suite app and start accessing the contents stored in the drive as a stand-alone application. It is a cross-platform application. Currently, It supports Linux, macOS and Windows.

Install G Desktop Suite In Linux

Since it is an Electron app, installation is very easy! Head over to the releases page and download the latest G Desktop Suite version for your platform. As of writing this guide, currently .deb and .rpm packages are available.

If you downloaded the deb package, go to the download location and install it like below:

$ sudo apt install gdebi
$ sudo gdebi gdesktopsuite_0.2.1_amd64.deb

If you've downloaded the rpm package, install it using command:

$ sudo dnf localinstall gdesktopsuite-0.2.1.x86_64.rpm

Access Google Drive Using G Desktop Suite

Launch G Desktop Suite from the Dash or Menu.

This is how G Desktop Suite default interface looks like. Login with your Gmail account credentials.

Launch G Desktop Suite App

Launch G Desktop Suite App

That's it. You are now in your Google Drive. Just start using the Google Drive as the way you do in the browser.

Access Google Drive Using G Desktop Suite In Linux

Access Google Drive Using G Desktop Suite In Linux

 

You can view, edit, upload, download and delete files and folders saved in your drive. You can also access all Google Suite apps such as Google docs, sheets, slides, forms, drawings, my maps, Google sites and many more.

Here is a visual demo of G Desktop Suite:

It also has dark mode. You can swap between dark and normal mode with a single mouse click. The app will automatically adjust to your OS's dark mode settings

Personally I prefer having a desktop application for stuff like Google Drive. I don't have deal with too many opened tabs in the browser. Since it works as a stand-alone app, I can simply separate my Google Drive from other tabs in the browser and switch between all opened windows by pressing "alt + tab" keys.


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2 comments

Tim K January 19, 2021 - 1:32 am

Hello and thanks for all your most helpful posts! I’m having a problem with this one, though, the G Desktop Suite. I’ve run Electron apps before, so I don’t think that’s the issue. After installing the deb without trouble, I clicked the icon in the Activities menu (Gnome 3) and nothing happened. After attempting to open it from a terminal (gdesktopsuite &), I got this cryptic message:

# gdesktopsuite &
[1] 2865
#
[1]+ Trace/breakpoint trap gdesktopsuite

Running dmesg reveals two lines with similar information, presumably one line for each start attempt:
[183148.440543] traps: gdesktopsuite[2824] trap int3 ip:5650b9cbb22f sp:7ffea82f30f0 error:0 in gdesktopsuite[5650b68c3000+53dd000]
[183241.775521] traps: gdesktopsuite[2865] trap int3 ip:55a5971e722f sp:7ffcf66bb0e0 error:0 in gdesktopsuite[55a593def000+53dd000]

There is surely enough RAM:
# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 32761856 6483536 16397780 1705516 9880540 24249300
Swap: 0 0 0

Do you have any clue? I do not. Thanks.

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sk January 19, 2021 - 10:45 am

Hey,

I never had such issue. Please file a bug report here -> https://github.com/alexkim205/G-Desktop-Suite/issues

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