I saw this on reddit:
For anyone else dealing with this problem, I ended up fixing it by uninstalling xdg-desktop-portal
. I was told I could also set widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.settings=0
in about:config
but I didn’t try that.
cscs
29 July 2023 04:17
2
No … instead remove your bad portal.
(as mentioned in the release announcement and a hundred other threads not 2 years old )
(( you probably have xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
installed on a not-gnome desktop. ))
pacman -Qs xdg-desktop-portal-gnome && sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome && sudo pacman -Syu xdg-desktop-portal-gtk || echo "Its something else!"
Many applications (firefox, thunderbird, telegram, etc) slow to start on desktops other than Gnome
There is a bug with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
(more details here ).
Workaround for gtk-based desktops (including Xfce)
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
Workaround for KDE
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-kde
Workaround for Lxqt
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt
Did you know that the forum has a search function?
Had you used it, then you would have found this …
Many applications (firefox, thunderbird, etc) slow to start on desktops other than Gnome
There is a bug with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
(more details here ).
Workaround for gtk-based desktops (including Xfce)
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
Workaround for KDE
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-kde
Workaround for Lxqt
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt
Workaround for desktops using hyprland
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
Workaround for desktops using wlroots
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
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philm
31 July 2023 15:11
4
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