Hello, John Kehayias <john.kehay...@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
