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[Hans-Peter Huth]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:53:25 +0100
Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> bwrap is a tool to chroot an application while it starts. We don't
> call it directly in digiKam at all, but. containerized application
> with appimage, snap or flatpak use it.
> 
> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/bubblewrap/bwrap.1.en.html
> 
> Note: I'm sure that your native digiKam is a containerized version. In
> Ubuntu, "apt install" switches automatically to the Snap installer
> quietly. Firefox for exemple is installed like this with apt. It's not
> a native package, it's a containerized version.
> 

Thanks for the explanation,

i'm using Manjaro, did not expect that a natively provided program did use
something like this. And DK seems to be the only one (Firefox does not call
bwrap here). Anyway, does not seem to cause some problems.

HP
> Best regards
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> Le sam. 13 déc. 2025 à 21:53, Hans-Peter Huth
> <hans-ph at web.de> a écrit :
> >
> > just for my understanding: on Linux (Manjaro im my case) DK starts many
> > bwrap and /usr/lob/clycin-loaders processes which seem to stay after DK
> > has been terminated. Whats the purpose of these processes and is it
> > normal that the are not terminated? It seems they do no harm, just sit
> > there.
> >
> > This behavior occurs here with DK 8.8 native exe and 8.9 appimage.
> >
> > Just curios.
> >
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