So I finally switched my desktop from windows to EOS after years of running headless linux servers.
I’m having a good time of it but I want to be one of the cool kids and use a tiling windows manager. And ive been loving that too. Except I can’t get links to open from discord and steam can’t open the file browser. I could just boot into KDE or GNOME to add non-steam games to my library but I don’t want to goddamnit. What can I do to start fixing this issue? Haven’t found any solutions online.
Edit: looks like I found the solution, portal was installed but never ran at startup. A quick exec inside the sway config has solved my issues. Thank you everybody!
Welcome to Sway club! 😜 This sounds like you haven’t installed an xdg desktop portal (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal) I personally installed the gnome ones. However you can pick any of these. They provide stuff like file pickers, etc. Regarding the links there was a command to set the default app for different mime types using xdg-open. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find it.
Thanks! This fixed part of my problem lol. The “browse local files” button works but if I want to add a non steam game or customize said non steam game with images, that still doesnt work. Which is… Odd.
That’s odd 🤔
Just for the protocol: besides installing it you also launched xdg-desktop-portal, right?
Also you need both,
xdg-desktop-portalandxdg-desktop-portal-[your choice].alright looks like its not running those at startup. Thank you kindly!