flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal on Hacker News

…to xdg-desktop-portal which has not been accepted. (Add parental controls to the Accounts portal: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922 ) I'm asking: - What is this guy's personal interest in pushing this through? (It…

comment by monksy · 2026-03-20 · in Store birth date in systemd for age verification

Hacker News damaged the link: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922#issu... > To require devices to conduct commercially reasonable age assurance for users under the age of 18 at the point of device activation, unlocking…

comment by nickslaughter02 · 2026-03-05 · in NY bill to require devices to conduct commercially reasonable age assurance

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story by nickslaughter02 · 2026-03-05 · 2 comments

There is an xdg-desktop-portal which an application can use to register a global shortcut. https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/data... Not sure which compositor support this and which ones don't. Hyprland, which I use,…

comment by serbuvlad · 2024-11-22 · in Gregglogger

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/655

comment by Spivak · 2024-01-29 · in Flathub: One million active users and growing

…with evdev) Up to the compositor. >Global shortcuts Also up to the compositor. Was added to xdp in https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/data... so it's up to the compositor's xdp impl to provide it. It was created by a…

comment by Arnavion · 2023-11-26 · in PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support

…any trouble with it. > - No proper global keyboard shortcut > - No push to talk support On its way: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/711 / https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.free... > - Several…

comment by jeroenhd · 2023-10-15 · in Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session

…fine details. That wasn't for a game, but games also use custom allocators for various reasons. [1] https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/536

comment by 0xcde4c3db · 2023-09-10 · in A guy preserving the new history of PC games, one Linux port at a time

…but it seems xdg-desktop-portal since 1.16.0 has a 'Global Shortcuts portal'. Perhaps check it out. https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal

comment by limecat · 2023-09-08 · in Unpacking Elixir: Syntax

…have built-in support for atomic writes by first writing to a temporary file and then renaming it ( https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/docu... ), so it should be possible to avoid this scenario altogether.

comment by kirbyfan64sos · 2023-03-23 · in Acropalypse: Windows Save File API is defective by design

Isn't xdg-desktop-portal a flatpak thing? It claims to be so here: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal > A portal frontend service for Flatpak and possibly other desktop containment frameworks. When it comes to global shortcuts,…

comment by mort96 · 2023-02-28 · in X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 protocol (2013)

Yes: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/711 Requires DE integration. Currently works on KDE only.

comment by msizanoen · 2022-12-28 · in “Discord” would like to receive keystrokes from any application

…An API for global keyboard shortcuts was being worked on and just got merged 2 months ago. https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/624 There is a way to protect against LD_PRELOAD: use sandboxing. X11 is bad for security…

comment by QEIAo7BCrzKtYQ · 2022-11-26 · in Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling

…request for a description of some of the current challenges with getting global shortcuts to work: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/711 >no forethought to screen capture The plan for a while has been to put screen capture…

comment by Crysstalis · 2022-07-30 · in Ask HN: When do you think Wayland will be broadly supported?

…(2 pts, 30 min ago) [2] https://github.com/KDE/xdg-desktop-portal-kde [3] https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal

comment by rektide · 2022-07-07 · in GTK 5 might drop X11 support

…confusion, there is one screenshot API that abstract the compositor but it lies in xdg-desktop: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/da... The portal for xdg-desktop takes care of the implementation and is the…

comment by boudin · 2022-02-07 · in Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland

…[6]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus/issues/3#issuecomment-808940... [7]: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal [8]: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/created...

comment by HMH · 2021-10-03 · in PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack

…sway here's the most lightweight solution: https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs For mutter (GNOME): https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal + pipewire

comment by scaladev · 2021-03-13 · in Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems

…selection. It is possible to choose directories in the same way, and portals are always improving: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal . Plenty of Flatpak applications actually do use this, but the author of this website loves to…

comment by dylan-m · 2020-10-02 · in Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later

…post has a list of backend implementations. The readme in the main daemon has the same list: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#using-portals

comment by cycloptic · 2020-04-01 · in OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

…browser... or to otherwise build a new filesystem abstraction. It does have that through portals: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal If you Flatpak a Gtk+ 3 or modern Qt application you get portals for free. E.g. I packaged a Qt…

comment by microtonal · 2018-10-10 · in Flatpak – a security nightmare

Through some API that checks authorization. Eventually everyone should be using https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/da... (which is based on https://pipewire.org ) For now, e.g. https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-gnome-scre…

comment by floatboth · 2018-09-13 · in The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security