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<div dir="auto">Flatseal to the rescue, Peter.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Carlos Echenique<br />
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<div name="messageReplySection">On May 31, 2020, 9:03 PM -0400, Peter Teuben <teuben@gmail.com>, wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite">i ran into another beautiful feature of the flatpak..... I wanted to<br />
edit a file with another app, gimp, but its not inthe list, since it can<br />
only look inside of it container (without going through contortions).<br />
Even /usr/bin/gimp doesn't work.<br />
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I dunno about flatpak.<br />
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On 5/31/20 9:32 AM, Carlos Echenique wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite">Hmmm. The implementation of flatpak support is specific to the distro<br />
being used. I am using a spin of an Arch-based distro and that is<br />
where the files are placed on my system. YMMV.<br />
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Carlos Echenique<br />
CE Photography<br />
carlos@echenique.com<br />
On May 31, 2020, 2:34 AM -0400, Stuart Rogers<br />
<stuart@stella-maris.org.uk>, wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite">I used the flatpak override filesystem command in a console window.<br />
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Stuart<br />
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On 31 May 2020 01:01:56 BST, Carlos Echenique <carlos@echenique.com><br />
wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite">How did you add the override? Flatseal stores them in<br />
.local/share/flatpak/overrides not in the system in order to maintain<br />
the<br />
sandbox.<br />
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On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 5:53 AM Stuart T Rogers<br />
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wrote:<br />
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<blockquote type="cite">Interesting this flatseal, just installed it and opened it up but it<br />
does not show the override I have used to access my home directory<br /></blockquote>
which<br />
<blockquote type="cite">allows Digikam to see my database and photo directories!<br />
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Also as I said before it's a real pain that I am unable to access<br /></blockquote>
easily<br />
<blockquote type="cite">any other apps like GIMP, I guess unless they are installed using<br />
flatpak. Probably some way to do it but this all just seems total<br />
overkill in order to run Digikam.<br />
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I simply cannot see a reason to run it locked down like this. Yes<br /></blockquote>
there<br />
<blockquote type="cite">are things where it would be very useful because there is real danger<br />
but not this. I'll stick to appimage (assuming it continues) or wait<br /></blockquote>
for<br />
<blockquote type="cite">the distro RPM.<br />
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