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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Have you tried flatseal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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