Gixen Desktop Manager (64-bit) released

[mario]

Gixen Desktop Manager 2.0.2 has just been released.

Improvements include:

1) GDM is now 64-bit. which makes it perform better and be more friendly on Windows 7, Windows 10, etc.

2) A third-party openssl library that was previously needed and distributed with GDM is no longer needed.

3) As before, GDM does not install - you unpack the zip archive and run it. It's free from adware and spyware as long as you download it from Gixen.Com (download link is below). Please avoid any other site that offers it, some modify it and add all kind of different garbage that you don't want installed on your computer.

I will see if interest for 32-bit app still exists to release it in parallel, but the default distro will now be 64-bit.

You can download it from https://www.gixen.com/gdm/GixenDesktopManager.zip

[22dollar]

I will see if interest for 32-bit app still exists to release it in parallel, but the default distro will now be 64-bit.


Need 32 bit, thanks

[Frichmout]

Hi Mario,

I have just downloaded GDM and at first execution, Norton (Symantec endpoint protection V12.1.6) said it was not a safe file and has deleted it...

[frichmout]

Precision : Norton report

Scan type: Auto-Protect Scan
Event: Risque de sécurité détecté.
Security risk detected: WS.Reputation.1
File: [local location] GixenDesktopManager.exe
Location: Quarantaine

[Gixen]

[charlescarmichael12]

Mario,
Thanks very much for a new release will try it over the coming days

[mario]

frichmout,

I guarantee you I haven't put any malware into GDM. The only important thing is to download it from Gixen directly, and not some shady third-party site.

As for the Norton, definitely not my favourite anti-virus software.

[Nutters]

I will see if interest for 32-bit app still exists to release it in parallel, but the default distro will now be 64-bit.


Would appreciate 32 bit as well, thanks

[Ramona]

Just to mention that the links to the Gixen Desktop Manager on the main gixen.com home page are currently giving an error "The topic or post you requested does not exist".

Also, is there any way to know when there is a new version of Gixen Desktop Manager (or indeed of the Firefox extension) without having to visit the Community to check? I'd be happy to be on a (low volume) Gixen mailing list that told me about updates, planned outages, etc.

[gipsy]

Hi,
I would like to have the 32-bit version of Gixen Desktop Manager.
I know that the future is at 64 bits, for questions of organization and computer park, I stay at 32 bits (for the moment).
Thanks
Gip

[Rickajho]

Another vote for a 32 bit release, please and thank you.

[mario]

32-bit version is now available at:

https://www.gixen.com/gdm/GixenDesktopManager-32bit.zip

[Ramona]

[mario]

Thank you, I updated the link on the home page. For major GDM updates - I disable the old version on the server side, so you know immediately that you must upgrade. I don't do that always - e.g. not for minor updates, as it's a hassle for users who may not need the update.

I will see that I add another flag on the settings page (e.g. email for GDM updates), as I don't want to email all users about something they may not use at all.

[22dollar]

[quote="mario"]32-bit version is now available at: ....


Thanks for 32 BIT Desktop Manager ! ! !


Can [32 BIT] Desktop Manager be loaded with Firefox and then have items go to Firefox eBay pages when item clicked on??
To avoid bidding yourself up when forgetting you are using Firefox Autosnipe for your eBay bids instead of Explorer.

[Cupid]

I'm not really understanding this 22dollar,

There is only one Gixen snipe amount for any particular auction, whether you add that snipe via the web interface, via Autosnipe or via the Gixen Desktop Manager, they all access the same Gixen database.
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[ralwine]

[Guest]

Although I don't buy as much from eBay as I used to, I have downloaded the Gixen Desktop Manager and Android app and it has made buying from eBay so much easier.
Thank you for this.

James

[Nomz]

I was wondering if you planed to release a mac os and/or ios version of the desktop manager. I know I can run the windows version in one of the many different virtual machine software but it would be much more convenient to have a OSX version if possible.

Thank you.

[Cupid]

Nomz,

Do you know how much a development environment for an Apple device costs ?

It might have to be crowd funded, just to make it an economic option.
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[jraytay]

Just signed up and won bid by $21 less than my top offer. Even though Mirror may not seem like much value added for $6 I purchased to support this excellent program. Thanks.

[Cupid]

Support is being requested here.
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[bhaktamal]

[Cupid]

[clcurrie]

I just signed up and downloaded the desktop app but when I signed in, I got this notice:

Your ebay authorization has expired or expires in less than 10 days. Please renew it on the Gixen settings page or your snipes may fail. Your eBay authorization to Gixen has been revoked. Please renew it on the Gixen settings page or your snipes may fail.

Where is "the page" in eBay?

[juangrande]

Log in to your Gixen account and click the [Settings] button to go to your Settings page.

Follow the Re-authorize Gixen on your eBay account link and carry out the instructions.
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If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
--- Yogi Berra

[kinggooner]

I have to input my login name and password into Desktop Manager every time I open it.
I have ticked the "remember" box on every occasion, however, the next time I use it I always have to input my credentials again.

[Cupid]

I guess that the account that you are using to run the application doesn't have update access to the working directory that the application is using.

The credentials would normally get stored in an file called gixen.ini in that directory.
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[Paid User]

[21259006311259]

[Cupid]

[itsme13804]

I have tried the new version for the last 2-3 days and I offer the following comments:

Credentials are not remembered even thought the box is checked.

Print is very small and hard to read. (I use a 23" monitor.)

Individual lines need to be separated somehow. Perhaps using color on every other line instead of each line.

No item thumbnails. This makes it difficult to locate an individual listing without reading each description.

Most of all, it is very slow to load compared to the original Desktop Manager.

[Cupid]

[thirrouard]

[Cupid]

[Luckytx]

Okay, can someone explain to me how this site works for auctions, step by step as I have not been able to make this work for me and I am clueless about what I am doing. Hope to be lucky again.

[Cupid]

Have you read the FAQ page, accessed via the tab above ?

Can you be more specific about where you are having problems, eg, logging in on the web interface, setting up snipes using the fields and the 'Add' button, downloading and using the Desktop Manager on Windows systems (if you prefer not to use the web interface), changing the Settings, etc. etc.

Otherwise the question is a bit too wide to respond to directly here in anything like a succinct fashion.
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[kk0456]

Your ebay authorization has expired or expires in less than 10 days. Please renew it on the Gixen settings page or your snipes may fail.

Hi

When I open gixen page, above message appears.
But I have paid six USD to continue this service via Paypal February6.
Did you confirm that payment?

[Cupid]

Your authorisation is not the same thing as your subscription.

You don't pay for your authorisation but you do need to renew it at least once every 18 months, because Ebay expires it after that.

You can renew it by logging in here via the web interface then selecting the 'Settings' button that appears just below the tabs, to the left of the 'Logout' button, then you can renew your authorisation via the second section of the page that comes up.
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[jshailes]

Hi. I was just looking for the desktop client and came across this thread. I was wondering if there's ever been a version that can run under linux. If not and it's something you'd be interesting in doing I'd be happy to help with dev. TIA

[Cupid]

No, there has never been a version for Linux.

As far as providing development support, you are best discussing that directly with Mario, via email, at the support address given on the Contact tab.
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[dakid]

How odd. I bid (and won the item), but GDM shows status as "bid under asking price. Any idea why it says that?

Also, I clicked on Img on this post so I could attach the image but it didn't work. It just gave me this ---> [img]. [/img]

[Cupid]

The only way to share images here is to upload them to an image hosting site and then provide a link here (without the leading https).

It is probably that you are looking at the status for the later server which would have received that status since once a bid is accepted by Ebay it won't accept another of the same (or less) amount from the same user for the same item.
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[dakid]

Thank you for your response. I'm still not sure I understand why the GDM program shows "bid under asking price," since I won the auction.

Are you saying that the GDM program is the later server?

Under status (mirror) it says HIGH BIDDER.

I thought I'd bring this to your attention in case its a glitch that needs to be fixed.

[Cupid]

'HIGH BIDDER' means that you won.

This means that the Mirror server got the bid in first (perhaps you had a larger offset for the Mirror ?), then the Main server came along and tried to place the same bid, but at that point Ebay will reject it because there is already a bid of that amount that they have accepted. If for some reason the Mirror bid had not been accepted or had failed to be sent this bid from the Main would have been your backup, making sure that your bid did get placed after all.

The status of 'BID UNDER ASKING PRICE' means that Ebay wouldn't accept a bid of that amount at the time that server tried to place the bid.

This is normal operation, nothing to worry about.
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[compuguy]

[pimento]

HI
looking at the desktop, I understand the yellow and the red, but some snipes are grey and others are white. What's the difference
regards
peter

[Cupid]

The grey one is the one that is currently selected. So if you perform an action like 'Edit' or 'Delete' that is the one the action applies to.
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[dakid]

I just got a new Dell WIndows 10 laptop and downloaded the desktop version of Gixen.

When I log onto the desktop version of Gixen it says, "cannot user country, using default." Why does it say that nag screen and how to I get rid of it?

When I try to log onto the desktop version it also says?
Error:(101) Log in on gixen.com first

How can I stop it from saying that? The weird thing is that I'm logged onto gixen (that's how I'm posting this message).

[Cupid]

You don't need to be able to log into Gixen in order to be able to post here.

From what you are saying it sounds like your credentials are not being accepted via the Desktop Manager.

I would first check that you can log into the website using the 'Log in Now' button above, note that it is your Gixen id and password you use, which are not the same as your Ebay credentials. Once you are certain you have credentials that work I'd then go back to the Desktop Manager and check that you are using exactly the same for that.
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[liefscale]

Thanks Mario all good

[mzzyrae]

Every thing works until I click the Gixen button then I get this

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'https' (T_STRING) in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/gixen/maintenance.php on line 19[/b]

[mario]

Please see https://www.gixen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10608

There was an issue this evening.

[wichitalaw]

Hello, I tried to use the desktop manager and it will not allow me to log in it always tells me to log into gixen.com first and i try however never successful. would like to use it as paying for it. thx

[Cupid]

I don't quite understand.. are you saying you can't log in to both the Desktop Manager or here on the website ?

If so have you tried resetting your password using this page:

https://www.gixen.com/forgotpassword.php

or checking that you have the correct Gixen id using:

https://www.gixen.com/forgotusername.php
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[kodafixed]

I recently upgraded my system to Win11 and ever since I get this error when I refresh my ebay wishlist: "Could not get item list, error returned:"
and there's no error code/message after the colon.

v2.0.2 - 64bit

[Bytesmiths]

[mario]

[Guest]

[beachbumtech72]

Same errors for me trying to import watch lists.

[Cupid]

Have you tried importing your watch list via the web interface, and if so are any issues thrown up by doing that ?
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[cavecreekgoat]

Another MAC user here that would like this.

[Guest]

I take it that desktop manager is only available for Windows and there is not a Mac version. Correct? Interested in a Mac version in the future, if possible.

Thanks!!

[Cupid]

Some people have had success with running this under windows emulation software like Wine.
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[Buybid]

But the browser version works well so no need to have desktop.
Also have my history since I started with Mario in 2014!

[BOTulism]

[Guest]

[Bar72]

64 bit keeps freezing with a \"Not Responding\" message running on Windows 10 LTSC build 1809 build 17763.5206, however, the 32 bit version runs perfect.

Thanks for making the 32 bit version available.

[Ramona]

[Cupid]

[mario]

[Ramona]

[smroth2]

Does the new GDM (64 bit) work with Microsoft Edge?

I'm getting strange messages.

Thanks.

[Cupid]

[gscillieri]

When I try to use the Gixen app I get the following:

I am getting this error first:
\"Could not get user country, using default\"

I click OK the I get the following error:

\"ERROR(101): LOG IN ON ***.GIXEN.COM FIRST\"

I am logged into the website, I click OK then I get:

\"Could not get item list, API returned:ERROR(101): LOG IN ON ***.GIXEN.COM FIRST\"

i click OK and it just keeps repeating:

\"Could not get item list, API returned:ERROR(101): LOG IN ON ***.GIXEN.COM FIRST\"

using version 2.2.0
Windows 10 Home

[Cupid]

To me this looks like your Gixen account is not being recognised from the credentials that you are giving the Desktop Manager.

When you log in here on the website do you see any issues ?

Any messages when you set up a snipe using the website ?

Is your authorisation up to date, in the second section of the Settings page ?

Do you remember going through the process of registering your Gixen account with the website before downloading and attempting to use the Desktop Manager ?

How long have you had this Gixen account, have you successfully used it (utilising a different interface from the Gixen Desktop Manager) for a while, or is it new ?

If you've used it for a while which interface has been your preference up until now ?
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[gscillieri]

When you log in here on the website do you see any issues ?
-no

Any messages when you set up a snipe using the website ?
- No messages when I use website

Is your authorisation up to date, in the second section of the Settings page ?
-Yes it is up to date

Do you remember going through the process of registering your Gixen account with the website before downloading and attempting to use the Desktop Manager ?
- I dont know what this is? Maybe this is the issue, how do I accomplish this?

How long have you had this Gixen account, have you successfully used it (utilising a different interface from the Gixen Desktop Manager) for a while, or is it new ?
- I've had this account since 2021

If you've used it for a while which interface has been your preference up until now ?
-Ive always used the website or the phone app

[Cupid]

OK, you must have successfully completed the setup of your Gixen account for the website to be working for you.

So this must be specific to your use of the Gixen Desktop Manager.

Do you use any special characters (like '/' or '\\') either in your Gixen username or your Gixen password ?

Have you tried using the 'Settings->Username and Password' option in the Desktop Manager to resubmit your credentials, which might have been stored incorrectly on your computer?... and what are the error messages that you see when you do?
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[gscillieri]

\"Do you use any special characters (like '/' or '\\\\') either in your Gixen username or your Gixen password ?\"

OMG...I feel so stupid!!! Youre question above key me in on one very important issue...GIXEN username...not ebay username and password....arghhh

I was puttingin the wrong username and password....arghhh!!!

Guess what? It works now!!!

[gscillieri]

THANK YOU A MILLION FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!

[Cupid]

[cal]

Is there a way to reduce data usage? Just reviewed via Task Manager -> App history -> Network and was surprised to see that it used 25 GB since 7/26.

I have Xfinity internet unfortunately and have to deal with data caps, so limiting this would be useful.

I'd be happy to help develop as well. Would be cool if this tool is open-source, but get that's not a trivial change.

[Cupid]

In the past it's been noted that the frequency of updates that you choose for the Desktop Manager changes the amount of data that it uses.

So in the window that comes up when you select the Settings->Preferences menu option you could try different settings for the 'Price Refresh Interval:' option. You'd expect higher refresh rates to require more data usage.
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