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Manage Flatpak permissions

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2021-03-21 · latest 2026-04-02

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    Flatseal – GUI for managing Flatpak permissions
    story by basilikum · 2026-04-02 · 0 comments
  2. Use flatseal with flatpak. https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal
    comment by BadHumans · 2024-11-23 · in I Stopped Using OpenBSD
  3. …expand/override everything from env vars to filesystem locations you want to enable access to. [1] https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal
    comment by sirius87 · 2023-03-15 · in Linux desktop leaders unite behind Flathub app store. Here's why
  4. Flatpaks are awesome. If you need to tweak them, Flatseal is a great tool. https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal
    comment by gtirloni · 2023-02-24 · in KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop
  5. …software sandboxing (at least Android level sandboxing) Flatseal may provide what you want here: https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal > I'm not really interested in using it for software that's already packaged in the dnf repositories. Fair…
    comment by grey_earthling · 2022-02-15 · in Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
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    Flatseal – Manage Flatpak Permissions
    story by 0des · 2021-12-14 · 0 comments
  7. …called "FlatSeal" that lets you view and (to a degree) edit permissions of Ftatpak Apps. https://github.com/tchx84/flatseal (I use it for spectating only on occasion, because too much fiddling will probably break the app at some point).
    comment by riidom · 2021-11-23 · in Flatpak Is Not the Future
  8. …override the flatpack settings and that a gui application exists with which one can configure them: https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal
    comment by SeriousM · 2021-08-18 · in Sandboxing Zoom
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    Flatseal tool to manage flatpak permissions
    story by gtirloni · 2021-05-11 · 0 comments
  10. …way, from the article you linked TIL about Flatseal[0] so I'll be taking that for a spin! [0] https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal
    comment by oedmarap · 2021-03-21 · in Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)
  11. …deb off the internet or an AppImage than using Flatpak, which both have worse security stories. [0] https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal
    comment by linmob · 2021-03-21 · in Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)