From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com>
Cc: "53134-done@debbugs.gnu.org" <53134@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#53134: org.signal.Signal on flatpak can't execvp xdg-settings
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:57:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtdcxs5p.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xqVoxqOrneuooWQ5mO7TPf63kgl0NimXkUKU4t5R-_Ae3AE8Ipnu-NymO8xGgO53U2w3p9f5w7HTbHNGpcQAIAO1KkXqf_qTmXHe8zh5eno=@protonmail.com> (John Kehayias's message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2022 03:47:03 +0000")
Hello,
John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I use Signal through Flatpak on a Guix System without any issues. I
> can't say I have seen this error before. Some general pointers about
> Flatpak (on Guix at least):
>
> 1. Applications should be installed as a user, i.e. with flatpak
> --user I don't think running them it makes a difference specifying,
> and probably you would have run into an error or suggestion from
> flatpak telling you to use --user.
>
> 2. To interact with the system (Flatpak is a sandbox) you will likely
> need an xdg-desktop-portal, probably xdg-desktop-portal-gtk or
> xdg-desktop-portal-wlr (for Wayland, not sure how the setup for that
> works though)
>
> 3. The first warning you see can be rectified by adding the second
> path (the first won't exist on Guix Systems) to XDG_DATA_DIRS as it
> notes (in your .profile or similar), or you can use the script
> provided by the package in your profile's etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh (I
> don't think Guix automatically uses scripts in etc/profile.d unlike
> other distros)
>
> Hope that helps! If you can provide other info like how you installed
> Signal, guix describe, and so on, that may help too.
Thanks John for this answer; I hope it helped Alexandre solving their
flatpak related problem.
Closing.
Maxim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-14 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-09 3:07 bug#53134: org.signal.Signal on flatpak can't execvp xdg-settings Alexandre Hannud Abdo
2022-01-09 3:47 ` John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-07-14 3:57 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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