xdg-desktop-portal-gtk VS xdg-desktop-portal

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5 days ago 1 day ago
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xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

Posts with mentions or reviews of xdg-desktop-portal-gtk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
  • Is the Racket 8.9 flatpak supposed to take this long to load?
    2 projects | /r/Racket | 17 May 2023
    I came across this, could this be playing a role? If it fixes Fedora 37 then it would be a clue and perhaps then the package could enter the string itself? https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/72
  • Where to file bug reports about "portals" ?
    7 projects | /r/flatpak | 27 Mar 2023
    However, the actual dialogs and access points are provided by a backend, which differs from what desktop are you using. For example, Gnome uses xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, KDE uses xdg-desktop-portal-kde and so on.\ If there is an issue with the implementation of an portal, you need to find the backend you use and report it to them.
  • Web (Epiphany) running in the background
    1 project | /r/gnome | 20 Feb 2023
    Is the Web search provider enabled in Settings? Those can apparently trigger background detection: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/293
  • How can the "Save File" dialog window of Chrome be set to focus when saving?
    1 project | /r/gnome | 5 Sep 2022
    That sounds like https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/137
  • obs wayland pipewire capture missing
    4 projects | /r/Gentoo | 3 Sep 2022
    gui-libs/xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt Available versions: 0.2.0 Homepage: https://lxqt-project.org/ Description: Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt/KF5/libfm-qt gui-libs/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr Available versions: 0.4.0(0/9999) 0.5.0(0/9999) ~0.6.0(0/9999) **9999(0/9999)*l {elogind systemd} Homepage: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr Description: xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots [I] kde-plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde Available versions: (5) 5.24.6 ~5.25.4 {debug} Installed versions: 5.24.6(5)(01:02:06 07/29/22)(-debug) Homepage: https://kde.org/plasma-desktop Description: Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal that is using Qt/KDE Frameworks [I] sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal Available versions: 1.14.6 {geolocation screencast systemd} Installed versions: 1.14.6(20:25:44 08/27/22)(-geolocation -screencast -systemd) Homepage: https://flatpak.org/ https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal Description: Desktop integration portal sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome Available versions: 42.3 {X wayland} Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome Description: Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GNOME sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk Available versions: 1.8.0 1.14.0 {X wayland} Homepage: https://flatpak.org/ https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk Description: Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GTK+ Found 6 matches
  • Flaptak (and Snap) is not the future
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2021
  • GNOME 41 is out.
    3 projects | /r/archlinux | 10 Nov 2021
    you still xdg-desktop-portal-wlr in sway for screen sharing. the purpose of the gtk portal on non-gnome setups is to pass through some gtk settings (e.g. fontconfig, aliasing, gtk theme) to flatpak apps. your gtk flatpak apps won't follow the system theme and fontconfig unless you have the xdg-desktop-portal-gtk installed. right now it's borked though see below for more details - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72686?project=1&string=xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/360
  • xdg-desktop-portal-gtk PR#345: Gnome-free portals
    1 project | /r/swaywm | 8 Jun 2021
  • What's killing a background app and how to reset it?
    1 project | /r/kde | 31 Mar 2021

xdg-desktop-portal

Posts with mentions or reviews of xdg-desktop-portal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.
  • Flathub: One million active users and growing
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024
  • Changes to xdg.portals?
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 28 Nov 2023
  • PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    >Not losing all the work every time your windows manager crashes

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509703

    >remapping keys

    >Use xinput to change parameters of their input devices (libinput dropped most configuration options present with evdev)

    Up to the compositor.

    >Global shortcuts

    Also up to the compositor. Was added to xdp in https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/data... so it's up to the compositor's xdp impl to provide it. It was created by a KDE dev so I assume KDE implements it at least.

    >tunnelling over ssh

    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

  • Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2023
    > - O proper screen recording support

    Works just fine. I use OBS.

    > - broken screen sharing

    Never had any trouble with it.

    > - No proper global keyboard shortcut

    > - No push to talk support

    On its way: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/711 / https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.free...

    > - Several problems with multiple screens

    Haven't had any more than on X11, but then again I do use Nvidia hardware on Linux.

  • The Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port at a Time
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2023
    It might help, but at this point Linux containers can't really stabilize the whole environment, especially for games. Particular pain points include accelerated graphics (which theoretically can have a stable kernel interface, but in practice is so complex and performance-sensitive that it's not stable enough to be a "reference platform", so to speak) and modern game controllers (which present a whole mess of concerns typically "addressed" in Flatpak by granting the device=all permission and hoping for the best [1]).

    I also know a guy who ran into issues with a kernel update breaking a custom allocator, although I don't know the fine details. That wasn't for a game, but games also use custom allocators for various reasons.

    [1] https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/536

  • Unpacking Elixir: Syntax
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2023
    I don't use Wayland, but it seems xdg-desktop-portal since 1.16.0 has a 'Global Shortcuts portal'. Perhaps check it out.

    https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal

  • UX Hurdles in Open Source #1: Flatpak Permissions
    1 project | /r/linux | 27 Jun 2023
    It's being discussed: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/611
  • Advice: TW or Aeon
    2 projects | /r/openSUSE | 26 Jun 2023
    The first bug report was filed in early 2022 but unfortunately no progress yet on the matter, even after numerous similar reports ever since.
  • Native messaging for Firefox
    1 project | /r/flatpak | 23 Jun 2023
  • Xdg portal hyprland and launching gui apps
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 21 Jun 2023
    Yeah been having the same issue since I changed to using the unstable branch, supposedly noticed and fixed upstream for a few variants of the problem (different people with different configurations of DE and xdg-* deps installed report the same issue due to timeouts of the other portals)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and xdg-desktop-portal you can also consider the following projects:

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr - xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots

gamescope - SteamOS session compositing window manager [Moved to: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope]

nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

org.signal.Signal

gtk-layer-shell - A library to create panels and other desktop components for Wayland using the Layer Shell protocol

us.zoom.Zoom

pipewire - Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)

flatpak-cve-checker

flatpaks

freedesktop-sdk