From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>, 39950@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39950: flatpack packages can't open external applications
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:24:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0967rtz.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1y535ri.fsf@cassou.me>
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Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> writes:
> Hi,
>
> when I install a flatpak package under Guix System, this package works
> but can't open external applications. This is a problem for some
> applications, e.g., Blender will never open your web browser.
>
> How to reproduce:
>
> $ guix install flatpak
>
> $ flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
>
> $ flatpak --user install flathub org.blender.Blender
>
> $ flatpak --user run org.blender.Blender
>
> In Blender, click on the Help menu in the menu bar and choose "User
> communities". This is supposed to open a web browser but no browser will
> pop up.
>
> When in bash, I can use xdg-open to open a web page without problem.
To my knowledge, Flatpak applications run in isolated containers and
thus have no visibility to the host system by default. Maybe there are
some command-line arguments you can add to give it access to what it
needs to open a browser?
It seems to me there is little Guix can do about it without breaking the
containerization features of Flatpak. WDYT?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-20 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-06 14:41 bug#39950: flatpack packages can't open external applications Damien Cassou
2020-03-20 19:24 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2020-03-21 9:22 ` Damien Cassou
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