Gradience, Flatseal, Loupe Image Viewer, and Resources running on Ubuntu 16.04

Firefox 118.0.2 running on Ubuntu 16.04

Door Knocker, Collision, and Cartridges running on Ubuntu 16.04

ASHPD Demo running on Ubuntu 16.04, showing a notification through XDG portals

According to Door Knocker, almost half of the portals are unavailable on Ubuntu 16.04, compared to only one unavailable on Fedora 39 with GNOME, which means Flatpaks running here may have more limited capabilities than usual.

  • Possibly linux
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    79 months ago

    Try podman and distrobox. Podman runs as the local user and distrobox simplifies it so you can run GUI apps and have full file access

    • @wim@lemmy.sdf.org
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      19 months ago

      I nees to try this. I’m currently running Debian stable + Flatpak, but not being able to access all local files from things like Firefox is really forcing me to jump through hoops.

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        19 months ago

        Really? It should be a XDG portal. What environment are you running?

        • @wim@lemmy.sdf.org
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          19 months ago

          Sway with xdg-desktop-portal-wlr. I can open a single file, but not directories of static content. So CSS, images, links all fail to load. Opening a single image or PDFs work fine.

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            19 months ago

            That’s very odd. Maybe you are missing a dependency or the features you are looking for simply are not in older software