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diff --git a/desktop/flatpak/README b/desktop/flatpak/README index 26feb68fde..a20dd8636e 100644 --- a/desktop/flatpak/README +++ b/desktop/flatpak/README @@ -2,48 +2,52 @@ Flatpak Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux -Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions in -multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries and packaging -formats. Flatpak is here to change all that. It allows the same app to be -installed on different Linux distributions, including different versions. And -it has been designed from the ground up with security in mind, so that apps -are isolated from each other and from the host system. +Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions +in multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries and +packaging formats. Flatpak is here to change all that. It allows the +same app to be installed on different Linux distributions, including +different versions. And it has been designed from the ground up with +security in mind, so that apps are isolated from each other and from +the host system. You can find many apps already available on https://flathub.org/ Add flathub for system and your user's home folder with: -``` -sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo -flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo -``` +sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub \ + https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo +flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub \ + https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo + +Apps that require pulse audio (like steam, skype, etc) need +PULSE_SERVER environment variable to be set. This is not set for most +shells in slackware by default. One way I found to set this is: -Apps that require pulse audio (like steam, skype, etc) need PULSE_SERVER -environment variable to be set. This is not set for most shells in slackware -by default. One way I found to set this is: -``` export `xprop -root -notype PULSE_SERVER | tr -d ' '` -``` -A cleaner approach is to run `start-pulseaudio-x11` and then `pax11publish -i` -so the correct PULSE_SERVER variable is exported. Adding these two commands to -your ~/.xsession would be useful. - -Some of the examples from http://flatpak.org/#users are relying on polkit -helpers, that expect a user in the 'wheel' group to have privileges for, but -default polkit admin rule for slackware is just the root user. -So, if you run a command like: -``` + +A cleaner approach is to run `start-pulseaudio-x11` and then +`pax11publish -i` so the correct PULSE_SERVER variable is +exported. Adding these two commands to your ~/.xsession would be +useful. + +Some of the examples from http://flatpak.org/#users are relying +on polkit helpers, that expect a user in the 'wheel' group to have +privileges for, but default polkit admin rule for slackware is just +the root user. So, if you run a command like: + flatpak remote-add --from gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome.flatpakrepo -flatpak remote-add --from gnome-apps https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps.flatpakrepo -``` -as a limited user, you will get a polkit prompt for root's password. This is -because the default location for establishing these repos is in -`/var/lib/flatpak` and requires admin privileges. +flatpak remote-add --from gnome-apps \ + https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps.flatpakrepo + +as a limited user, you will get a polkit prompt for root's +password. This is because the default location for establishing these +repos is in `/var/lib/flatpak` and requires admin privileges. -You can optionally add the flag `--user` to flatpak commands, and it will -instead manage the repos in `~/.local/share/flatpak`. +You can optionally add the flag `--user` to flatpak commands, and it +will instead manage the repos in `~/.local/share/flatpak`. There are examples of flatpak runtimes and applications on their wiki: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Examples -They too have desktop launchers search by desktops like KDE and XFCE, it will -require a logout, as /etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh will need to be sourced. +They too have desktop launchers search by desktops like KDE and XFCE, +it will require a logout, as /etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh will need to +be sourced. |