β² 486 βΌ What's your self-induced pain points fellow linux users (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 76 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child) slaps flatseal at steam this bad boi can access so many directories (which when they are in /media or /mnt or /run are detected as disks) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) How exactly? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) it's an app on Flatpak called Flatseal, it's a GUI to give flatpaks permissions and such. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yeah I know, but what do you do with it to be able to use other drives? I tried everything I could when I was using other distros before I settled on Bazzite. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) I recommend reading up and learning more about flatpaks and their sandboxing. Flatseal is just a GUI implementation of the flatpak CLI. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html You can also very quickly download Flatseal for yourself to put your own eyes on it. Everything is labeled and has tooltips. permalink fedilink source parent [β] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Flatseal is a gui for the rights management of flatpaks you can change there what access a given application has e.g. filesystem access to directories. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yeah, I mean I went through that to an unsuccessful result. So I was asking what values should people write in which fields. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago* Oh, well it depends where you have mounted your drives on. you can do that in your file browser, your partition manager or via console with lsblk. Gnome Disks: File Browser: Console: and add them in the file access list under "Other files". (I have installed steam directly so OBS had to act as a stand in) restart Steam so that those new permissions can be applied. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) How exactly? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) it's an app on Flatpak called Flatseal, it's a GUI to give flatpaks permissions and such. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yeah I know, but what do you do with it to be able to use other drives? I tried everything I could when I was using other distros before I settled on Bazzite. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) I recommend reading up and learning more about flatpaks and their sandboxing. Flatseal is just a GUI implementation of the flatpak CLI. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html You can also very quickly download Flatseal for yourself to put your own eyes on it. Everything is labeled and has tooltips. permalink fedilink source parent [β] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Flatseal is a gui for the rights management of flatpaks you can change there what access a given application has e.g. filesystem access to directories. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yeah, I mean I went through that to an unsuccessful result. So I was asking what values should people write in which fields. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago* Oh, well it depends where you have mounted your drives on. you can do that in your file browser, your partition manager or via console with lsblk. Gnome Disks: File Browser: Console: and add them in the file access list under "Other files". (I have installed steam directly so OBS had to act as a stand in) restart Steam so that those new permissions can be applied. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) it's an app on Flatpak called Flatseal, it's a GUI to give flatpaks permissions and such. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yeah I know, but what do you do with it to be able to use other drives? I tried everything I could when I was using other distros before I settled on Bazzite. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) I recommend reading up and learning more about flatpaks and their sandboxing. Flatseal is just a GUI implementation of the flatpak CLI. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html You can also very quickly download Flatseal for yourself to put your own eyes on it. Everything is labeled and has tooltips. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yeah I know, but what do you do with it to be able to use other drives? I tried everything I could when I was using other distros before I settled on Bazzite. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) I recommend reading up and learning more about flatpaks and their sandboxing. Flatseal is just a GUI implementation of the flatpak CLI. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html You can also very quickly download Flatseal for yourself to put your own eyes on it. Everything is labeled and has tooltips. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) I recommend reading up and learning more about flatpaks and their sandboxing. Flatseal is just a GUI implementation of the flatpak CLI. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html You can also very quickly download Flatseal for yourself to put your own eyes on it. Everything is labeled and has tooltips. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Flatseal is a gui for the rights management of flatpaks you can change there what access a given application has e.g. filesystem access to directories. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yeah, I mean I went through that to an unsuccessful result. So I was asking what values should people write in which fields. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago* Oh, well it depends where you have mounted your drives on. you can do that in your file browser, your partition manager or via console with lsblk. Gnome Disks: File Browser: Console: and add them in the file access list under "Other files". (I have installed steam directly so OBS had to act as a stand in) restart Steam so that those new permissions can be applied. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yeah, I mean I went through that to an unsuccessful result. So I was asking what values should people write in which fields. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago* Oh, well it depends where you have mounted your drives on. you can do that in your file browser, your partition manager or via console with lsblk. Gnome Disks: File Browser: Console: and add them in the file access list under "Other files". (I have installed steam directly so OBS had to act as a stand in) restart Steam so that those new permissions can be applied. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago* Oh, well it depends where you have mounted your drives on. you can do that in your file browser, your partition manager or via console with lsblk. Gnome Disks: File Browser: Console: and add them in the file access list under "Other files". (I have installed steam directly so OBS had to act as a stand in) restart Steam so that those new permissions can be applied. permalink fedilink source parent
