Re: [e-users] Flatpak QT apps problems with open files menu

Hi,

Unless I misunderstand you want Enlightenment to start with the 
xdg-user-dirs so xdg-desktop-portal will run? Enlightenment doesn't use 
the usual /etc/xdg/autostart stuff so you will need to install 
xdg-user-dirs (or whatever your Distro calls it) and then you need to 
add that to Enlightenment's 'Startup Applications'. So 
Menu-->Settings-->Settings Panel-->Apps-->Startup Applications and in 
the 'System' tab if there is an entry for 'User Folders Update' or 
something similar you will want that to be selected to run when the 
system starts up... That will expose the User XDG folders and it will 
also make them appear in Enlightenment's File Manager.

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On 2026-02-07 19:08, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 at 08:42, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 20:54:51 +0100 Wawrzek Niewodniczanski <
>> [email protected]>
>> said:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> > I have a bunch flatpak applications. The GTK one are all fine, the
>> > QT(5) cannot open files. I was looking through the internet and notice
>> > this bug report:
>> > https://github.com/flatpak/qt-flatpak-demo/issues/16
>> >
>> > In the related issue, someone was having a problem, because of using
>> > i3 (https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/336)
>> >
>> > I use self build enlightenment in Crux, so I wonder if there is
>> > anything I adjust in E to make it work, or maybe I should look in
>> > another direction
> 
> [...]
> 
>> 
>> No idea but... it seems the issue is either with Qt or flatpak itself.
>> possibly
>> expecting a specific dbus service. it affects everyone else too it 
>> seems
>> (no de
>> at all - as you mention i3 etc.). my guess is this is a bad 
>> implementation
>> of
>> something in Qt and/or flatpak assuming a big desktop env. solution:
>> 
>> [...]
> Not sure if I had the same error again, but today I had a nice 
> debugging
> session with my friend Claude and the problem is related to lack of the
> XDG_DATA_DIRS when dbus starts `xdg-desktop-portal`.
> 
> Wawrzek