* bug#39950: flatpack packages can't open external applications
@ 2020-03-06 14:41 Damien Cassou
2020-03-20 19:24 ` Marius Bakke
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Damien Cassou @ 2020-03-06 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 39950
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.
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Damien Cassou
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
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* bug#39950: flatpack packages can't open external applications
2020-03-06 14:41 bug#39950: flatpack packages can't open external applications Damien Cassou
@ 2020-03-20 19:24 ` Marius Bakke
2020-03-21 9:22 ` Damien Cassou
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marius Bakke @ 2020-03-20 19:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Damien Cassou, 39950
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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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* bug#39950: flatpack packages can't open external applications
2020-03-20 19:24 ` Marius Bakke
@ 2020-03-21 9:22 ` Damien Cassou
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Damien Cassou @ 2020-03-21 9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marius Bakke, 39950
Hi,
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
> 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?
When in Fedora, the exact same Flatpak command works fine: a browser
opens.
--
Damien Cassou
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
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