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With my flatpak version of LibreOffice (LO 5.2.5, Ubuntu 18.04), the files created or modified by LO do not appear in "Recent files" in Ubuntu.
It seems to be the same for other applications (I tested also Sublime Text which is installed via flatpak).
It is quite annoying as Ubuntu "Recent files" is often the fastist way to find the files you recently work on.
How can this behavior be corrected?
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Silvain DupertuisSilvain Dupertuis
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With my flatpak version of LibreOffice (LO 5.2.5, Ubuntu 18.04), the files created or modified by LO do not appear in "Recent files" in Ubuntu.
It seems to be the same for other applications (I tested also Sublime Text which is installed via flatpak).
It is quite annoying as Ubuntu "Recent files" is often the fastist way to find the files you recently work on.
How can this behavior be corrected?
libreoffice flatpak
asked Aug 9 at 19:20
Silvain DupertuisSilvain Dupertuis
413 bronze badges
1
It can be corrected by filing a bug report with each Flatpak author. They are failing to register their activity with Gnome properly.
– user535733
Aug 9 at 19:53
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With my flatpak version of LibreOffice (LO 5.2.5, Ubuntu 18.04), the files created or modified by LO do not appear in "Recent files" in Ubuntu.
It seems to be the same for other applications (I tested also Sublime Text which is installed via flatpak).
It is quite annoying as Ubuntu "Recent files" is often the fastist way to find the files you recently work on.
How can this behavior be corrected?
libreoffice flatpak
asked Aug 9 at 19:20
Silvain DupertuisSilvain Dupertuis
413 bronze badges
With my flatpak version of LibreOffice (LO 5.2.5, Ubuntu 18.04), the files created or modified by LO do not appear in "Recent files" in Ubuntu.
It seems to be the same for other applications (I tested also Sublime Text which is installed via flatpak).
It is quite annoying as Ubuntu "Recent files" is often the fastist way to find the files you recently work on.
How can this behavior be corrected?
libreoffice flatpak
libreoffice flatpak
asked Aug 9 at 19:20
Silvain DupertuisSilvain Dupertuis
413 bronze badges
asked Aug 9 at 19:20
Silvain DupertuisSilvain Dupertuis
413 bronze badges
asked Aug 9 at 19:20
Silvain DupertuisSilvain Dupertuis
413 bronze badges
asked Aug 9 at 19:20
Silvain DupertuisSilvain Dupertuis
413 bronze badges
asked Aug 9 at 19:20
Silvain DupertuisSilvain Dupertuis
413 bronze badges
413 bronze badges
1
It can be corrected by filing a bug report with each Flatpak author. They are failing to register their activity with Gnome properly.
– user535733
Aug 9 at 19:53
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It can be corrected by filing a bug report with each Flatpak author. They are failing to register their activity with Gnome properly.
– user535733
Aug 9 at 19:53
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It can be corrected by filing a bug report with each Flatpak author. They are failing to register their activity with Gnome properly.
– user535733
Aug 9 at 19:53
It can be corrected by filing a bug report with each Flatpak author. They are failing to register their activity with Gnome properly.
– user535733
Aug 9 at 19:53
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Warning: the following is for the flatpak version of Gimp, but possibly also relevant to other flatpak apps.
The standard file used by well-behaved applications is ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. Unfortunately the flatpak installs keep their own copy as ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel.
A first idea is to replace ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel by a link to ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel but this link is quickly replaced by a plain file.
On the other hand the ~/.var/app/application/data directory has the same organization as ~/.local/share/ and replacing it by a (soft) link to ~/.local/share/ (and possibly copying over useful stuff) did correct the problem for me.
answered Aug 9 at 20:32
xenoidxenoid
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As far as I have observed, the Recent file problem concerns all applications installed with flatpak and with snap, and is linked to the sandboxing, so we need a general way of solving the problem.
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 11 at 6:37
1
@SilvainDupertuis The general way will come from the flatpak authors. If you want a flatpak fix, report the issue. By asking here you can only get work-arounds. Another annoying thing is the application-specific/tmp. Many apps communicate with others by putting the data in a/tmpfile and passing the name.
– xenoid
Aug 11 at 7:11
Thanks for your comment. I have opened an issue in flatpak on github
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 12 at 16:07
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Warning: the following is for the flatpak version of Gimp, but possibly also relevant to other flatpak apps.
The standard file used by well-behaved applications is ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. Unfortunately the flatpak installs keep their own copy as ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel.
A first idea is to replace ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel by a link to ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel but this link is quickly replaced by a plain file.
On the other hand the ~/.var/app/application/data directory has the same organization as ~/.local/share/ and replacing it by a (soft) link to ~/.local/share/ (and possibly copying over useful stuff) did correct the problem for me.
answered Aug 9 at 20:32
xenoidxenoid
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As far as I have observed, the Recent file problem concerns all applications installed with flatpak and with snap, and is linked to the sandboxing, so we need a general way of solving the problem.
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 11 at 6:37
1
@SilvainDupertuis The general way will come from the flatpak authors. If you want a flatpak fix, report the issue. By asking here you can only get work-arounds. Another annoying thing is the application-specific/tmp. Many apps communicate with others by putting the data in a/tmpfile and passing the name.
– xenoid
Aug 11 at 7:11
Thanks for your comment. I have opened an issue in flatpak on github
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 12 at 16:07
add a comment
|
Warning: the following is for the flatpak version of Gimp, but possibly also relevant to other flatpak apps.
The standard file used by well-behaved applications is ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. Unfortunately the flatpak installs keep their own copy as ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel.
A first idea is to replace ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel by a link to ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel but this link is quickly replaced by a plain file.
On the other hand the ~/.var/app/application/data directory has the same organization as ~/.local/share/ and replacing it by a (soft) link to ~/.local/share/ (and possibly copying over useful stuff) did correct the problem for me.
answered Aug 9 at 20:32
xenoidxenoid
2,9131 gold badge6 silver badges19 bronze badges
1
As far as I have observed, the Recent file problem concerns all applications installed with flatpak and with snap, and is linked to the sandboxing, so we need a general way of solving the problem.
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 11 at 6:37
1
@SilvainDupertuis The general way will come from the flatpak authors. If you want a flatpak fix, report the issue. By asking here you can only get work-arounds. Another annoying thing is the application-specific/tmp. Many apps communicate with others by putting the data in a/tmpfile and passing the name.
– xenoid
Aug 11 at 7:11
Thanks for your comment. I have opened an issue in flatpak on github
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 12 at 16:07
add a comment
|
Warning: the following is for the flatpak version of Gimp, but possibly also relevant to other flatpak apps.
The standard file used by well-behaved applications is ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. Unfortunately the flatpak installs keep their own copy as ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel.
A first idea is to replace ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel by a link to ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel but this link is quickly replaced by a plain file.
On the other hand the ~/.var/app/application/data directory has the same organization as ~/.local/share/ and replacing it by a (soft) link to ~/.local/share/ (and possibly copying over useful stuff) did correct the problem for me.
answered Aug 9 at 20:32
xenoidxenoid
2,9131 gold badge6 silver badges19 bronze badges
Warning: the following is for the flatpak version of Gimp, but possibly also relevant to other flatpak apps.
The standard file used by well-behaved applications is ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. Unfortunately the flatpak installs keep their own copy as ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel.
A first idea is to replace ~/.var/app/application/data/recently-used.xbel by a link to ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel but this link is quickly replaced by a plain file.
On the other hand the ~/.var/app/application/data directory has the same organization as ~/.local/share/ and replacing it by a (soft) link to ~/.local/share/ (and possibly copying over useful stuff) did correct the problem for me.
answered Aug 9 at 20:32
xenoidxenoid
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answered Aug 9 at 20:32
xenoidxenoid
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answered Aug 9 at 20:32
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As far as I have observed, the Recent file problem concerns all applications installed with flatpak and with snap, and is linked to the sandboxing, so we need a general way of solving the problem.
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 11 at 6:37
1
@SilvainDupertuis The general way will come from the flatpak authors. If you want a flatpak fix, report the issue. By asking here you can only get work-arounds. Another annoying thing is the application-specific/tmp. Many apps communicate with others by putting the data in a/tmpfile and passing the name.
– xenoid
Aug 11 at 7:11
Thanks for your comment. I have opened an issue in flatpak on github
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 12 at 16:07
add a comment
|
1
As far as I have observed, the Recent file problem concerns all applications installed with flatpak and with snap, and is linked to the sandboxing, so we need a general way of solving the problem.
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 11 at 6:37
1
@SilvainDupertuis The general way will come from the flatpak authors. If you want a flatpak fix, report the issue. By asking here you can only get work-arounds. Another annoying thing is the application-specific/tmp. Many apps communicate with others by putting the data in a/tmpfile and passing the name.
– xenoid
Aug 11 at 7:11
Thanks for your comment. I have opened an issue in flatpak on github
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 12 at 16:07
1
1
As far as I have observed, the Recent file problem concerns all applications installed with flatpak and with snap, and is linked to the sandboxing, so we need a general way of solving the problem.
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 11 at 6:37
As far as I have observed, the Recent file problem concerns all applications installed with flatpak and with snap, and is linked to the sandboxing, so we need a general way of solving the problem.
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 11 at 6:37
1
1
@SilvainDupertuis The general way will come from the flatpak authors. If you want a flatpak fix, report the issue. By asking here you can only get work-arounds. Another annoying thing is the application-specific
/tmp. Many apps communicate with others by putting the data in a /tmp file and passing the name.– xenoid
Aug 11 at 7:11
@SilvainDupertuis The general way will come from the flatpak authors. If you want a flatpak fix, report the issue. By asking here you can only get work-arounds. Another annoying thing is the application-specific
/tmp. Many apps communicate with others by putting the data in a /tmp file and passing the name.– xenoid
Aug 11 at 7:11
Thanks for your comment. I have opened an issue in flatpak on github
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 12 at 16:07
Thanks for your comment. I have opened an issue in flatpak on github
– Silvain Dupertuis
Aug 12 at 16:07
add a comment
|
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It can be corrected by filing a bug report with each Flatpak author. They are failing to register their activity with Gnome properly.
– user535733
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