[SOLVED]xdg-desktop-portal-gnome update causes FileChooser to not work

Adriik · 2024-09-21 03:43:50

The upgrade of xdg-desktop-portal-gnome from 46.2-2 to 47.1-1 causes flatpak programs not to open the FileChooser.

For example, if I open Librewolf, go to Discord, and use "Upload a file" in any chat, the only new entry that appears in the journal is the following:

xdg-desktop-por[3161]: Delegated FileChooser call failed: The name is not activatable

Downgrading the package to version 46.2-2 will make the FileChooser to appear again. But using either version 47.0-1 or 47.1-1 makes the FileChooser to not work.
I would like to report this issue to upstream, but first I want to be completely sure that this is a release to release issue and I would like to get more info before reporting.

Complete journal log: https://0x0.st/X35j.txt

Last edited by Adriik (2024-10-10 14:28:44)

seth · 2024-09-21 15:19:39

Sep 20 21:57:02 batman-bostero xdg-desktop-por[877]: Theme parser error: gtk.css:7894:18-22: Expected a number
Sep 20 21:57:12 batman-bostero xdg-desktop-por[835]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list
Sep 20 21:57:35 batman-bostero xdg-desktop-por[877]: Delegated FileChooser call failed: The name is not activatable
Sep 20 22:01:24 batman-bostero xdg-desktop-por[896]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe

So, what's your GTK theme?

Adriik · 2024-09-21 23:03:29

This one: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/toky … -theme-git

I tried again, updating the theme package. No luck, the same error message of FileChooser.
I tried removing the theme configuration on Flatpak apps, so Flatpak uses the default theme, and again no luck, the same message.

Here's a journal log after rebooting and doing only what I tested before: open Librewolf, go to Discord and trying to upload a file in any chat

seth · 2024-09-22 07:09:43

Sep 21 19:56:13 batman-bostero xdg-desktop-por[872]: Theme parser error: gtk.css:7916:18-22: Expected a number
Sep 21 19:56:13 batman-bostero xdg-desktop-por[872]: Theme parser error: gtk.css:7928:18-22: Expected a number

I tried removing the theme configuration on Flatpak apps, so Flatpak uses the default theme, and again no luck, the same message.

The problem is the file-chooser/portal, remove the theme entirely.

Adriik · 2024-10-05 13:15:07

Sorry the late reply.

I deleted the theme completely from my system and choose another theme to test (adw-gtk-theme).
Here's the journal with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 47.1-1: https://0x0.st/XEui.txt . The same problem.
Here's the journal with 46.2-2: https://0x0.st/XEu-.txt . No problem.

I did the exact steps as before: open Flatpak version of Librewolf, go to Discord webpage and in any chat try to send a file.

seth · 2024-10-05 14:18:25

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desk … 8bc86a3eef looks like they switched to nautilus as backend, since you're using sway I guess you don't have that intalled? Any reason you're not just using https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … ortal-gtk/ ?

Adriik · 2024-10-10 14:13:39

I'm not using Sway, but Niri. And no, I don't have Nautilus installed.
About xdg-desktop-portal-gtk package, it's installed. I have the two packages installed: gnome and gtk.
I can't remember if the two were a required dependency for Niri, or if I installed gnome version that has the gtk version as a dependency.

Do you advice to have only gtk, and remove gnome portal? or install Nautilus since now it uses Nautilus as a backend?

seth · 2024-10-10 14:17:04

I'd advice to do whatever works and suits you best
Probably try to remove the gnome implementation if you don't want to buy into more gnome stuff.

Adriik · 2024-10-10 14:26:42

I removed gnome implementation, I'm not interested in using Nautilus.
So now I only have the gkt portal and the file chooser works perfectly with my theme.
So, I mark this thread as [SOLVED]. Thank you so much for the help, Seth.

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[SOLVED]xdg-desktop-portal-gnome update causes FileChooser to not work

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