Not able to download any files to sub directory folders

[winnie]

So this might be a bug with the package xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.

On my Xfce system, it’s not installed and I don’t have the issues as described.

Chromium file dialog is not using the default file manager

Well, hot dog! I don’t even have xdg-desktop-portal nor xdg-desktop-portal-gnome nor xdg-desktop-portal-gtk installed. (None of them.) Try uninstalling them and see if it resolves the issue? Not sure of their purpose, but I’ve been using my Xfce system for a while now with no issues, without these packages. To be clear, I do not have (nor ever have installed) any xdg-desktop-portal-* packages. EDIT: And here’s the bug report: FileChooser portal adds directories read-only (#41) · Issues ·…