[Stable Update] 2023-06-04 - Kernels, Gnome 44.1, Plasma 5.27.5, Python 3.11, Toolchain, Firefox

[cscs]

Are you intentionally avoiding all the times people have pointed out
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
?

@philm

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

@muvvenby

Problems
Starting Firefox and LibreWolf suddenly takes a very long time. Like 30 seconds to 1 minute. Used to be a couple of seconds. Chromium starts pretty much instantly as before.

Edit: Okay, so I probably really needed the coffee. The workaround mentioned above under the known issues and solutions (replacing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome with xdg-desktop-portal-gtk) worked for my Cinnamon gtk-based desktop. Thanks @philm for reminding me to read the troubleshooting post.

@cscs

@pheiduck
These all sound like the desktop-portal bug

@cscs

@philm

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 ).

this one

@pheiduck

See wiki-post:

@philm

Many applications (firefox, thunderbird, etc) slow to start on desktops other than Gnome

@rjw

My XFCE had the tortoise-paced firefox & telegram startups after this. But Philm’s solution worked.

@Malam20

I noticed both my browsers (Librewolf/Firefox, the latter being a flatpak) and applications like Screenshot, Libreoffice and Gnome-System-Monitor being incredibly slow and unresponsive

@cscs

Once again … please see the wiki post and attached reference to bug in xdg-desktop-portal

@philm

You may want to check if xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is installed and remove it. It is stated in troubleshoots.

@cscs

Oh come now …
Its been stated multiple times …
(including in the post your quoted/responded to)
check the wiki post.
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome bug

… I might have missed a few …