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can't share (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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After many years of absence, I am trying to get back into soulseek using Nicotine+.

Installed it through Flatpak on a debian based system. Application seems to work fine... except: clicking the "Add" button on the Shares pane of the settings menu does nothing. No dialog opens, no error message is shown, just nothing. Is it a known bug with an easy fix?

EDIT / SOLVED: appearantly when one logs into a remote desktop session, the file picker sometimes crashes. For anyone encountering same issues: login directly instead of remotely, or use suggested solve: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/file-chooser-does-not-open-for-flatpak-applications-f40-sway/126351/4

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You need to give Nicotine's flatpak permission to access what you want to share. You can do this easily with Flatseal (another flatpak), select Nicotine+, scroll down and with one tick you can give access to "All user files" (= your /home), or you can add a specific directory if you prefer.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thanks, this is great help indeed. I rarely use flatpak, not very familiar with it. It turns out the home folder was already allowed for Nicotine+, the issue appears to be that Nicotine+ is not allowed to "call" the opening of the dialog box to select the folder to use as shared...

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ok, it worked... the problem was appearantly that is was using xrdp to remotely login to a desktop session, and then for some reason the filepicker crashes: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/file-chooser-does-not-open-for-flatpak-applications-f40-sway/126351/4

    I did not use the bandaid workaround, but instead gained access to the device directly instead of remote desktopping and then the file or folderpicker worked just fine...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Btw I use the normal version of Nicotine, but this is how it usually works for flatpaks, as a security measure often the flatpak maintainer doesn't set the file access permission automatically.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Latest arch repo release works for me.

    Easiest next step would be to try the .deb package.

    I don't use any flatpaks, so I'm not familiar with their potentil quirks.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    report to the devs?

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