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

Compare xdg-desktop-portal-wlr vs xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and see what are their differences.

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots (by emersion)

xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal (by flatpak)
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7.5 6.5
7 months ago 21 days ago
C C
MIT License GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

Posts with mentions or reviews of xdg-desktop-portal-wlr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-09.

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

What are some alternatives?

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

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding

wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

org.signal.Signal

wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library

us.zoom.Zoom

v4l2loopback - v4l2-loopback device

flatpak-cve-checker

autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation

freedesktop-sdk

flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere! [maintainer=@matthewbauer, @Artturin]

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