How to install xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser?

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It doesn’t work for qt app like telegram

42

There isn’t xdg.configFile option for the nixos system.

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Yes

The screencasting ?

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It works. I forgot to mention it.

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It’s a home-manager option

For QT apps, you need

environment.sessionVariables = {
  QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME = "xdgdesktopportal";
};

as per bitfix13 answer. For Telegram specifically, maybe

environment.sessionVariables = {
  QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME = "xdgdesktopportal";
   TDESKTOP_USE_GTK_FILE_DIALOG = 1;
};

If you use Stylix, setting this in home-manager did the trick for me:

stylix.targets.qt.standardDialogs = "xdgdesktopportal";
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maybe a bit late to reply but if u wanna see how it did it, here it is: in my nixos modules and in my hm module

I’m also using xdp-termfilepicker rn since it’s better integrated with NixOS, but if u really wanna use termfilechooser, just comment out ./termfilepickers and uncomment `"org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser" = [ "termfilechooser" ]`

Personally i did the portal config in my nixos module and place the termfilechooser config with hm, but im almost sure u can do it all in hm, but in the off chanceit doesn’t work try to do it in the nixos module

Also don’t forget to correctly set GDK_DEBUG to "portals" and GTK_USE_PORTAL to 1, which i set in hm with home.sessionVariables

47

since when is there a niri portal ??

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It works everywhere.

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Wouldn’t it be better to include session variables in wayland compositor instead of doing it globally?

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personally i use home.sessionVariables instead, idk if it’s better but it works too

51

btw is there any way to force gtk apps like lutris tu use it too ?