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Your Most Frustrating Configuration Experience? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What software have you found particularly frustrating or difficult to configure on Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

XDG portal filechooser for Firefox: the KDE implementation uses Dolphin, which is full of features and I use most of them; the default GTK one is mildly infuriating to use and looks ugly too, but getting the browser to use the portal I want was a nightmare - especially since GTK discontinued the GTK_USE_PORTAL envvar.
The related Firefox config entries make no sense either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you explain a bit more about this and how to configure it? When I use FF on gnome, the save dialogue just looks like other dialogues?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think GNOME's filechooser is the GTK one (never used it so I'm not sure), mine looks like this:

It's entirely possible that Firefox changed and now uses XDG portals by default, I configured it like this a long time ago.

As for how to configure it, I honestly don't know.
It was a combination of messing with widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal on about:config, and changing XDG envvars and dotfiles; both by following several conflicting Reddit and bbs.archlinux.org posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker=1 in about:config should be the only thing you need. @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Seems to be the only necessary thing in my case! Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I definitely have the default GTK chooser. Guess I have some config playing to do later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Instructions for changing it here

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#XDG_Desktop_Portal_integration

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

When I was on Hyprland, I had to start Firefox with XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=kde while having both the KDE and GTK implementations of XDP.