Having a hard time finding out why it isn't possible to download files with #Firefox and #Brave on #Arch with #Hyprland

[tsvenson@fosstodon.org]

Having a hard time finding out why it isn't possible to download files with #Firefox and #Brave on #Arch with #Hyprland.

Both are installed with #flatpak so it pretty sure something with that I have to do something.

Tips on how to solve welcomed

[lcruggeri@mastodon.uno]

@tsvenson I use #flatseal to check and change flatpak’s permissions, imho Firefox has xdg-downloads only and Hyperland doesn’t set that variable. May be wrong

[tsvenson@fosstodon.org]

@lcruggeri

Thanks for the tip and info. It will for sure help me narrow things down

[lcruggeri@mastodon.uno]

@tsvenson i was right, i checked and it can only access 'xdg-download' and '.mozilla' or '.firefox', i don't recall. It's possible that your DE doesn't support FreeDesktop portals or env vars. Try to manually add the entire downloads path (e.g. /home/name/Downloads), it should work

[tsvenson@fosstodon.org]

@lcruggeri

Alright! XDG_DOWNLOAD isn't set it looks like. So will look up on that first.

Thanks Luca!

I'll let you know how it worked out when I have had time to try sorting it out.

[lcruggeri@mastodon.uno]

@tsvenson hola, solved something?

[omarchy@snac.bsd.cafe]

@tsvenson@fosstodon.org Try using Vivaldi

[tsvenson@fosstodon.org]

@lcruggeri

Had to postpone digging into it. But turning on the global "Wayland windowing system" was an immediate win as it fixed Obsidian scaling.

So thanks for that quick bonus. Will have to sett aside some time as #Flatseal revealed so many interesting options to get my head around.

[tsvenson@fosstodon.org]

@omarchy

I use Vivaldi on my main workstation with but opted for Brave on this one as complement to as main browser.