Flatpak Permissions - Terminal Commands and Flatseal UI

I'm a very happy user of flatpak. In general, they work very well with few exceptions. One issue I've encountered a few times is the default permissions making it so that I am unable to save a file from a flatpak application. This can be a major issue if you've spent time working on something and realize it is lost effort. I've since started checking the default permissions of any given app to make sure it doesn't happen again.

You can do set permissions from the terminal with 'flatpak override [app-id] --[permission]. In this video I use flatpak override --user net.xmind.XMind8 --filesystem=home` for Xmind. Note that I include the --user option since I install flatpak at the user level instead of the system level.

Another much more convenient way to do this is via a new tool called Flatseal. It provides a very nice UI to view and manage permissions.

References: http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal

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