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Wayland permission #63

Closed chrisawi closed 8 months ago

chrisawi commented 10 months ago

Opera apparently can be configured to use Wayland, so it should have --socket=wayland in its manifest in addition to x11.

Gaeldrin commented 8 months ago

Do you have any specific information that you could share here? I cannot verify that myself but about a year ago I received info from Flatpak devs that it does not work on Wayland.

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/3772#discussion_r1061264498

chrisawi commented 8 months ago

The problem with the original manifest was the use of socket=fallback-x11. That indicates that the app uses Wayland natively by default, and thus blocks access to the X11 socket in a Wayland session for security.

Opera doesn't use Wayland by default, but like other Chromium-based apps, you can set a flag (opera://flags/#ozone-platform-hint) to make it do so. For that to work, the socket=wayland permission needs to be enabled.

For reference, Chromium's manifest has:

  - --socket=x11
  - --socket=wayland

This allows users to enable Wayland for themselves and has no effect on the default behavior.

Gaeldrin commented 8 months ago

Thank you very much, it will be available in a few hours.