Ferdium, Flatpak, Wayland...

[fuelflo]

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Ferdium Version

6.7.0

What Operating System are you using?

Other Linux

Operating System Version

Arch Linux

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Ferdium version

No response

Expected Behavior

Ferdium Flatpak starts when forcing Wayland.

Actual Behavior

Ferdium does not start forcing Wayland.

flatpak run org.ferdium.Ferdium
 
[2:0121/200732.109058:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(240)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[2:0121/200732.109092:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.

Steps to reproduce

Set Ferdium flatpak to only use wayland, using Flatseal.
Try to start Ferdium.

Debug link

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Screenshots

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Additional information

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[David Jaša]

Having this natively would be nice! Especially for those of us who uses setups that stretch X11 server capabilities such as fractional DPI settings...

You can use a workaround until then: copy the /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.ferdium.Ferdium/current/active/export/share/applications/org.ferdium.Ferdium.desktop file to $HOME/.local/share/applications/ and add modify the Exec= line there by adding:

• before run: --socket=wayland --nosocket=x11
• before @@u %U @@: --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandWindowDecorations --ozone-platform-hint=auto

In other words:

$ diff -ur /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.ferdium.Ferdium/current/active/export/share/applications/org.ferdium.Ferdium.desktop .local/share/applications/org.ferdium.Ferdium.desktop
--- /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.ferdium.Ferdium/current/active/export/share/applications/org.ferdium.Ferdium.desktop	2024-01-09 09:26:39.123844351 +0100
+++ .local/share/applications/org.ferdium.Ferdium.desktop	2024-01-23 13:21:54.297009525 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [Desktop Entry]
 Name=Ferdium
-Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=ferdium --file-forwarding org.ferdium.Ferdium @@u %U @@
+Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak  --socket=wayland --nosocket=x11 run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=ferdium --file-forwarding org.ferdium.Ferdium  --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandWindowDecorations --ozone-platform-hint=auto @@u %U @@
 Terminal=false
 Type=Application
 Icon=org.ferdium.Ferdium

A related workaround: how to add kerberos support.

(use of flatpak override would be more elegant but it still lacks the capability of pass the extra args unfortunately.)