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The "Edit Configuration" button doesn't open a VM's configuration to edit #78

Closed uncivilgentleman closed 2 years ago

uncivilgentleman commented 2 years ago

On a VM's Preferences page clicking the Edit Configuration button prompts asking to create a snapshot first (as it should) but regardless of my choice of yes or no it never opens the VM's configuration.

felipeborges commented 2 years ago

This should launch an app chooser dialog which is part of xdg-desktop-portal (Portals). What's your desktop environment? Does it have xdg-desktop-portal and a frontend to it (-gtk, -gnome, -kde)?

uncivilgentleman commented 2 years ago

I'm on Pop!_OS 22.04 and their Cosmic version of GNOME. Reading the documentation for xdg-desktop-portal while scrolling through the permissions for Gnome Boxes in Flatseal it doesn't appear to have those permissions. I'm not sure how to add them though. I added org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop to System Bus but I'm not sure where xdg-desktop-portal-gtk or xdg-desktop-portal-gnome belong in Flatseal. The Portals section only has toggles for things like microphones and cameras.

Can anyone reproduce my issue or is it just an on my machine thing? I was counting on the fact it was easy to reproduce.

felipeborges commented 2 years ago

This has nothing to do with permissions.

Boxes uses the standard GLib.AppInfo.launch_default_for_uri () API to request the system to open a file.

This API will use Portals when the requesting app is sandboxed. So this is likely an issue with your distro failing at distributing xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.

Do other app-chooser dialogs work for your sandboxed/flatpaked apps?

uncivilgentleman commented 2 years ago

I figured out the issue, it was my fault. I turned off full host access and specifically added the directories I thought Boxes should have access to. As I run things in VMs that I don't trust I wanted to beef up security as much as possible. I should have thought of this sooner but everything else worked so I didn't think it was related.

Turning back on full host access for the flatpak fixed the issue. I'm sorry about wasting your time.

felipeborges commented 2 years ago

No problem! I'm glad things are working for you. Enjoy Boxes!