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Quest doesn't ask to give USB permissions in dev mode
I'm using Linux, Manjaro, with the Gnome desktop. When I connect my Oculus Quest to the PC, I get no popup in the headset about giving the system USB debugging permissions, and adb devices -l says: ...
I can confirm the same issue on another Linux distro, Mageia 7. Exact same description as in the OP.
As in https://forums.oculusvr.com/developer/discussion/comment/711258/#Comment_711258, restarting adb with sudo (i.e. with root permissions) seemed to work around the issue.I was then able to allow USB debugging access to the device inside the headset.
I further tested that killing the (root) adb server to then restart it as unprivileged user shows the device as "unauthorized" again, and lets me authorize it inside the headset. So I guess it might work fine from now on.
Edit: I was advised that this might be due to the need to set up udev rules for the Quest. I haven't seen them mentioned in the https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/quest/latest/concepts/mobile-device-setup-quest/ page, that would be a good addition (especially since figuring out the udev syntax and magic numbers is not trivial).