xdg-desktop-portal
Flatseal
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xdg-desktop-portal
- Flathub: One million active users and growing
- Changes to xdg.portals?
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PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support
>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
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Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session
> - 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.
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The Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port at a Time
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
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Unpacking Elixir: Syntax
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
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UX Hurdles in Open Source #1: Flatpak Permissions
It's being discussed: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/611
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Advice: TW or Aeon
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
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Xdg portal hyprland and launching gui apps
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)
Flatseal
- How do I add nom-steam games to my Steam library if the Steam app is sandboxed?
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Flathub just hit 1 billion total downloads
And not only that, the idea of portals is, IMO, misguided. See this view/bugreport when a flatseal user understands that even though they restricted permissions to access a certain area, the flatpak, itself, can ask to open files there and if OK'd that will be allowed. Their expectation is that with the overrides say "no access" it means "no access even if the flatpak asks very nicely". https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/issues/196
- Flatseal 2.0 Released with GTK4/libadwaita UI - OMG! Linux
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Mount a drive correctly in opensuse
Since you installed the programme via Flatpak, you should simply lack the necessary rights (https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html). You can extend the rights quite easily with https://github.com/tchx84/flatseal.
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Where to file bug reports about "portals" ?
Yes, filed https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/issues/196 a while ago, got no joy.
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Flatpak or tarball?
One design feature than can turn into an issue in some scenarios (usually dev tools) is the permissions of a flatpak. In case I need to tweak things, I use Flatseal. I know you can manually do this from the command line but I don’t change permissions that often so I don’t bother learning how to do that.
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KDE's Plasma 5.27 Beta desktop is now out. Get an advance peek into what is coming in February, check for bugs 🪳, and help the devs polish the features and code.
Does the Flatpak Permissions Settings replace a tool like Flatseal?
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the maddening truth of using Qubes
What about flatseal then ? https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal
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So Ive bit the bullet.. and bought a steam deck and have a few questions
https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal (Also on Discover. For security reasons, the Discover store installs apps as sandboxed "flatpak" apps. This one is used to view what each up can do and change the permissions of apps. May be required if the sandboxing breaks something, though usually not required.)
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How secure is Steam's sandbox in terms of reading contents in $HOME ?
I believe it does. As an example if I try running Godot from the Steam flatpak, it won't be able to see any of the contents of my ~/Projects folder unless I explicitly allow the steam flatpak access to that directory that via flatpak's CLI options or using Flatseal
What are some alternatives?
gamescope - SteamOS session compositing window manager [Moved to: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope]
firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
gtk-layer-shell - A library to create panels and other desktop components for Wayland using the Layer Shell protocol
apparmor-profile-everything - deprecated - maybe replaced by: `apparmor.d`
pipewire - Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)
argos-translate - Open-source offline translation library written in Python
flatpaks
snapstore - Obsolete super minimalist example "store" to serve snap packages
us.zoom.Zoom
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework