Out of the box a browser installed via Flatpak can't communicate with KeePassXC using the browser extension because of Flatpaks encapsulation.

This can be fixed by adjusting the browsers Flatpak permissions, adding a wrapper for keepassxc-proxy to the browsers container and spawning keepassxc-proxy from within the container.

I built a script that does this for you. Currently supports Firefox, Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium.

Have fun!

Following NVIDIA's announcement back at CES of their GeForce NOW game streaming service coming to Linux as a native desktop application, today's the day. The GeForce NOW Linux-native build is being published and the review embargo has lifted.

NVIDIA already has been offering GeForce NOW for Valve's Steam Deck while now they are offering it as a Flatpak build for the typical Linux desktop. While confined to a Flatpak, for now NVIDIA is just "officially" supporting it on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. Granted, thanks to Flatpak it should run on other non-Ubuntu distributions too but in terms of the official support and where they are qualifying their builds they are limiting it just to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. It's understandable from the corporate perspective and with there being a free tier to GeForce NOW, you can always try out the Linux build on the distribution of your choice before having to put any money down. At launch the Flatpak build is also just for x86_64 Linux with no AArch64 Linux builds or similar at this time.

Graphics drivers in Flatpak have been a bit of a pain point. The drivers have to be built against the runtime to work in the runtime. This usually isn’t much of an issue but it breaks down in two cases:

1. If the driver depends on a specific kernel version
2. If the runtime is end-of-life (EOL)

The first issue is what the proprietary Nvidia drivers exhibit. A specific user space driver requires a specific kernel driver. For drivers in Mesa, this isn’t an issue. In the medium term, we might get lucky here and the Mesa-provided Nova driver might become competitive with the proprietary driver. Not all hardware will be supported though, and some people might need CUDA or other proprietary features, so this problem likely won’t go away completely.

Flatpak 1.16.2 was released today as the latest stable version of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework and the first maintenance update to the Flatpak 1.16 series.

Coming more than seven months after Flatpak 1.16.1, the Flatpak 1.16.2 update is here to enable the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) extension for Intel Xe GPUs, support the “reinstall” option on bundle installations, allow cancellation for cURL downloads, and support for using sudo for changing the user.

Flatpak 1.16.2 also fixes an issue where the home directory would accidentally be accessible when a bad version of the GNU C Library (Glibc) is in use, the app has access to a standard XDG directory, and that directory is not available on the system.

Back in November Flatpak 1.17 released with support for sideloading from OCI images and other improvements in working toward the Flatpak 1.18 stable release. Out today is Flatpak 1.17.1 and was then followed quickly by Flatpak 1.17.2 to fix a mistake in the release artifacts.

Flatpak 1.17.1 introduces support for building OCI bundles with Zstd compressed layers. Leveraging Zstd rather than the default Gzip is said to speed-up compression by "several times" and result in about a 20% smaller size. But Gzip is still being kept the default compression format rather than Zstandard in order to ensure maximum compatibility. This OCI layer Zstd compression support stems from a two year old pull request for adding --oci-layer-compress=zstd support.

Together with my then-colleague Kalev Lember, I recently added support for pre-installing Flatpak applications. It sounds fancy, but it is conceptually very simple: Flatpak reads configuration files from several directories to determine which applications should be pre-installed. It then installs any missing applications and removes any that are no longer supposed to be pre-installed (with some small caveats).

At the end of last month, I introduced Solseek, a new TUI wrapper for Solus’s eopkg package manager, which offers a fast and streamlined way to browse, install, and update software on Solus Linux. Since then, it has been moving quickly, with rapid development introducing new features and improvements.

The recently released Solseek 0.3.2 brings a key expansion by adding full Flatpak handling alongside several performance and quality-of-life improvements.

Many distributions provide support out of the proverbial box for Flatpak packages, but Fedora is unusual in that it also provides, and defaults, to its own repository of Fedora-built Flatpaks. This has been a source of confusion for Fedora users, who expect to get the Flatpak built by the original developers and hosted on Flathub. It has also been a source of conflict with upstream projects, because users complain of bugs in Flatpak packages they are not responsible for. The situation has also frustrated some Fedora developers, who would prefer to offer put Flathub's offerings first. A new complaint that Fedora has apparently used manifests from Flathub to build the packages for Fedora—without giving credit to the original authors—has spurred discussions about Fedora's Flatpaks once again. While no concrete changes are on the table, yet, there may be some movement toward addressing persistent complaints.

Any developer or project can provide a repository with their software in Flatpak format; however, Flathub is the de facto hosting service for Flatpaks these days. Projects that publish Flatpaks expect users to get them from Flathub, and users looking for software would generally expect to get the Flathub version of a Flatpak.

After a difficult period, the Flatpak project regains stability and focus under new maintainers with the 1.17 pre-release, the first update in six months.

Red Hat’s Sebastian Wick has shared some interesting insights into Flatpak’s development following the 1.17 pre-release, an unstable version (the current stable is 1.16.1), marking the first update in six months and a strong return for this popular Linux sandboxing framework.

Flatpak 1.17 is out today as the newest feature release for this Linux app sandboxing/distribution tech. Flatpak 1.17 brings a number of exciting new features.

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/6985

https://flathub.org/statistics

You can now download or update your Speed Dreams Flatpak to the latest version (2.4.2), and enjoy our SimRacing Open Source Game in this kind of package:

https://flathub.org/apps/org.speed_dreams.SpeedDreams

Thanks once again to @son_link for his invaluable work.

Compatible with PeerTube. Unfortunately there is no login support but you can search, watch and subscribe to videos in the same feed with youtube and whatever else.

OC by: @paequ2@lemmy.today

Here are all the GNOME Core Apps I could find on Flathub.

• Audio Player flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Decibels
• Calculator flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Calculator
• Calendar flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Calendar
• Camera flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Snapshot
• Characters flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Characters
• Clocks flatpak install flathub org.gnome.clocks
• Connections flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Connections
• Contacts flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Contacts
• Disk Usage Analyzer flatpak install flathub org.gnome.baobab
• Document Scanner flatpak install flathub org.gnome.SimpleScan
• Document Viewer flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Evince
• Extensions flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Extensions
• Fonts flatpak install flathub org.gnome.font-viewer
• Image Viewer flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Loupe
• Logs flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Logs
• Maps flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Maps
• Music flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Music
• Text Editor flatpak install flathub org.gnome.TextEditor
• Videos flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Totem
• Weather flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Weather
• Web flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Epiphany