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File picker issues (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I’m having issues with the file picker on my arch system. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all. If I press “Upload file” in a browser, nothing happens, no window pops up. It doesn’t work in other apps either when that happens. It sometimes starts working after a restart. Does anyone have any ideas? Let me know if you need any logs and how to get them please :)

I’m on arch, hyprland, both xdg-hyprland and xdg-gtk are installed.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If this is firefox specific, in about:config set the value of something portal to 1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

on a totally different system and different app i had similar issues after an update. my solution was to run the app with a java version closer to what it was compiled for, which is not helpful for you. however, i think it was related to gtk/gnome libs having been updated (the app was using the file picker with gtk "look and feel")

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Have you checked the logs? I guess a simple journalctl —user -f would tell you what went wrong. Just run the command on a terminal and click the file picker button couple times and see what pops up