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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2020-10-12 17:21:41 -0400
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2020-10-17 09:38:17 +0700
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treef4508b24c345fa923f15514f54f692f829673c5a /desktop/flatpak
parentb316a430e4fae3f82f1751f1c637f49022cfb826 (diff)
desktop/flatpak: Fix README.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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@@ -2,48 +2,52 @@ Flatpak
Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux
-Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions in
-multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries and packaging
-formats. Flatpak is here to change all that. It allows the same app to be
-installed on different Linux distributions, including different versions. And
-it has been designed from the ground up with security in mind, so that apps
-are isolated from each other and from the host system.
+Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions
+in multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries and
+packaging formats. Flatpak is here to change all that. It allows the
+same app to be installed on different Linux distributions, including
+different versions. And it has been designed from the ground up with
+security in mind, so that apps are isolated from each other and from
+the host system.
You can find many apps already available on https://flathub.org/
Add flathub for system and your user's home folder with:
-```
-sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
-flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
-```
+sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub \
+ https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
+flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub \
+ https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
+
+Apps that require pulse audio (like steam, skype, etc) need
+PULSE_SERVER environment variable to be set. This is not set for most
+shells in slackware by default. One way I found to set this is:
-Apps that require pulse audio (like steam, skype, etc) need PULSE_SERVER
-environment variable to be set. This is not set for most shells in slackware
-by default. One way I found to set this is:
-```
export `xprop -root -notype PULSE_SERVER | tr -d ' '`
-```
-A cleaner approach is to run `start-pulseaudio-x11` and then `pax11publish -i`
-so the correct PULSE_SERVER variable is exported. Adding these two commands to
-your ~/.xsession would be useful.
-
-Some of the examples from http://flatpak.org/#users are relying on polkit
-helpers, that expect a user in the 'wheel' group to have privileges for, but
-default polkit admin rule for slackware is just the root user.
-So, if you run a command like:
-```
+
+A cleaner approach is to run `start-pulseaudio-x11` and then
+`pax11publish -i` so the correct PULSE_SERVER variable is
+exported. Adding these two commands to your ~/.xsession would be
+useful.
+
+Some of the examples from http://flatpak.org/#users are relying
+on polkit helpers, that expect a user in the 'wheel' group to have
+privileges for, but default polkit admin rule for slackware is just
+the root user. So, if you run a command like:
+
flatpak remote-add --from gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome.flatpakrepo
-flatpak remote-add --from gnome-apps https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps.flatpakrepo
-```
-as a limited user, you will get a polkit prompt for root's password. This is
-because the default location for establishing these repos is in
-`/var/lib/flatpak` and requires admin privileges.
+flatpak remote-add --from gnome-apps \
+ https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps.flatpakrepo
+
+as a limited user, you will get a polkit prompt for root's
+password. This is because the default location for establishing these
+repos is in `/var/lib/flatpak` and requires admin privileges.
-You can optionally add the flag `--user` to flatpak commands, and it will
-instead manage the repos in `~/.local/share/flatpak`.
+You can optionally add the flag `--user` to flatpak commands, and it
+will instead manage the repos in `~/.local/share/flatpak`.
There are examples of flatpak runtimes and applications on their wiki:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Examples
-They too have desktop launchers search by desktops like KDE and XFCE, it will
-require a logout, as /etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh will need to be sourced.
+They too have desktop launchers search by desktops like KDE and XFCE,
+it will require a logout, as /etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh will need to
+be sourced.