Questions tagged [flatpak]
Flatpak is a packaging mechanism for distributing a sandboxed desktop application to Linux systems.
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Audio skipping in Tauon music player for Linux (Flatpak)
Audio sometimes skips or stutters during playback in Tauon music player for Linux. It is installed as a flatpak.
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Android Studio emulator gamepad support
I've installed Android Studio using flatpak on Debian. I've tried connecting my gamepad both by bluetooth and USB, but the apps in the Android Studio emulator don't react to its buttons. Is there a ...
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How to run a PHP Web Server on SteamOS?
I've installed Visual Studio Code and PHP 8.3 from KDE Discover, but now I have no idea how to actually start the PHP Server. I'm able to do all my PHP Development in VSCode, but no way to actually ...
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How to add Basic Auth credentials to Flatpak remote requests?
I need to host a private Flatpak remote with restricted access by using Basic Auth (login/password). All I need now is to make Flatpak client add Authorization HTTP header with credentials to all ...
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Reuse the profile of apt Firefox in Flatpak version through a symbolic link?
The answers in the question How do I install and migrate to the official Firefox flatpak? show that when running Firefox through Flatpak, it saves profiles in the ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/....
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What does @@u and @@ mean in the a desktop entry
The default Firefox flatpak defines the following exec lines: ~ cat /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop | grep ^Exec Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --...
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flatpak "download only" update location
In APT, we can do apt upgrade --download-only so we download locally without installing. In flatpak, according to their help, we may use flatpak update --no-deploy to achieve the same behavior: "...
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What do I have to do to allow Adobe Reader to see all my files and folders in Fedora 41 KDE spin?
I'm running Fedora 41 KDE spin. I used Discover to install the Flatpak distribution of Adobe Reader. When I try to right-click Open With > Adobe Reader 9 on a file in Dolphin, it silently fails. ...
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flatpak permission from manifest does not grant permission to xdg-documents
When I built a flatpak, I put this in my manifest yml: finish-args: - --filesystem=xdg-desktop - --filesystem=xdg-documents - --socket=x11 - --share=ipc Then I built the app and installed it. ...
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How is `flatpak override --env=FOO=bar some.app.id` suppose to work?
I thought that I could: Use override to set an env for some flatpak And then every time I run this app If I enter in the process (to be sure, I did this for all 3 types of pids: instance,pid,child-...
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/run/user/1000/docs saved files cleanup
Debian 12.9 GNOME DE My /run/user/1000/doc folder contains some 150 subdirectories, a significant number of which contain no files and of some which do, selecting the file using Midnight Commander ...
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Flatpak missing version attribute in output
I want to automate some Flatpak-related things, and my current problem is listing all remote packages and their versions. For reproducibility, I am testing in a Docker container (fedora, debian or ...
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/opt folder and installing from flatpak
I was trying to install a program called soundux from pacstall, and it created a desktop icon but wouldn't install after a dependency issue. Clicking on that icon just created another icon on my task ...
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Why doesn't pkcon update the flathub repositories when I run it?
When I run pkcon refresh && pkcon update it doesn't update my flathub repositories. It does update apt and snaps but I still have to run flatpak update when I want to update my system. It ...
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unit name in journalctl empty when filtering using -u flag for flatpaks
journalctl shows logs in the following format <DATE> <TIME> <HOSTNAME> <UNIT NAME> <MESSAGE> Whenever I needed to get logs from a single unit I added -u flag journalctl -...
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