Rutherther <[email protected]> writes: Hi Rutherther,
I'm now doing this at the very beginning of my ~/.xprofile: ``` dbus-update-activation-environment XDG_DESKTOP_PORTAL_DIR DISPLAY ``` And things are working as expected. Thank you very much! > Hi Roman, > > Roman Scherer <[email protected]> writes: > >> Starting both xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and xdg-desktop-portal seems to >> have fixed the issue: >> >> https://github.com/r0man/guix-home/commit/6a0b24f76a19ed57c79b89dcdeade682a82922a1 >> >> But I wonder if this is the best way to do this. If so, maybe we should >> have home services for this or integrate it into >> home-startx-command-service-type ? > > No, this is not how xdg desktop portals are supposed to be used. > They are dbus services. They should be started by dbus. Moreover the > xdg-desktop-portal is responsible for starting individual > implementations, users aren't supposed to start them by themselves > during normal operation. > > To let dbus start xdg-desktop-portal, it suffices to have it installed > in a profile as long as it's in XDG_DATA_DIRS, like home is. > > To let xdg-desktop-portal start the implementations, it suffices to > install the main portal and the implementation in the same profile, > that way you obtain the search path needed for locating the portals. > This environment variable also has to be shared with dbus. > > Since you have done both, the issue seems to be that you haven't > imported your environment to dbus with > `dbus-update-activation-environment XDG_DESKTOP_PORTAL_DIR DISPLAY` for > X, for Wayland it would be `dbus-update-activation-environment > XDG_DESKTOP_PORTAL_DIR DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP WAYLAND_DISPLAY`, > possibly after setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP yourself. This has to be > called from within X/compositor to obtain the DISPLAY and > WAYLAND_DISPLAY so that the portals can know what display to start apps > in. Also, it has to be done on startup, before the portals have a chance > to start by being called by a program. > Importing only DISPLAY might be enough as dbus should already get > XDG_DESKTOP_PORTAL_DIR when it starts. > > Regards > Rutherther
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