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FreeDesktop is an informal standards body mostly (but not entirely) focused on graphical technologies of UNIX operating systems. The FreeDesktop website hosts both specifications and software.

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In the KDE file manager Dolphin, you can right-click files and Dolphin offers a context menu what to do with the file, e.g. send as an attachment by email. These so called desktop actions are ...
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I'll try to be concise! I run Arch with i3, polybar and xfce4 group to handle notifications etc. Thunar is the file manager. I've been struggling to understand why the thumbnail generation for my ...
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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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I'm using KDE on last debian and i get a lot of problem with the menu. I was using the kdemenu to organise the start menu, but i get a lot of trouble : Some .desktop shows in the start menu but not in ...
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Why am I seeing this message in my journalctl messages on Ubuntu? google-chrome.desktop[7412]: [7405:7405:0127/124242.745221:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop....
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I'm currently writing a small systemd service that may need to shutdown the computer. I'd like to broadcast a message to all users, e.g. This computer is going to shutdown at XXX, don't forget save ...
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The following command opens a file manager to show the directory. dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.FileManager1 --print-reply \ --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/FileManager1 \ org....
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Recently, I’ve tried to install nheko, a Matrix client, but I failed using it because it complains it cannot store password and other secrets because there are no providers for org.freedesktop.secrets ...
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I am trying to update the Gnome Web (org.gnome.Epiphany) flatpak, on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (on WSL2). One specific resource, "org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264" always freezes when downloading. ...
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Suppose I launch Firefox from my apps. Is the stdout and stderr redirected to a specific file or is it redirected to /dev/null? If it is indeed redirected to a specific file, I'd also like to know how ...
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I'm using GNOME under Arch Linux. According to freedesktop Menu Specification, .desktop files are under $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/. But when I was cleaning desktop entries today, I noticed that ...
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I have this problem when I try to connect to the wifi. If I run resolvectl I get the following error: resolvectl Failed to get global data: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.resolve1: ...
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I use sway on arch linux and a lot of apps log this error message: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser” How can I resolve this issue ? Thank ...
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I can't seem to create "Security" as a custom top-level Freedesktop category. (I have Sparky Linux with Openbox.) I did research and everyone agrees you can do it in three easy steps: ...
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Is it possible to store the Firefox Primary Password (formerly known as the Master password) using the freedesktop secret service dbus API, in order to bypass the password prompt when Firefox starts ...
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