external media / flatpakrc

[Alexander Larsson]

On Thu, 2017-02-16 at 10:49 +0000, Robert McQueen wrote:
> We've got some reports from users that eg they can't play movies in
> VLC 
> which are stored on an external HDD. As this is a binary we're 
> downloading, it's not patched to support flatpak and the document 
> portal, so we've added --filesystem=home. However this means
> /run/media 
> isn't accessible. Do we want --filesystem=media which maps in 
> /run/media/youruser as well?

--filesystem=host should give you this. Any particular reason you went
with just --filesystem=home ?

> Similarly / relatedly, I've personally got some data folders mounted
> on 
> my system (/mnt/sd) which aren't in the "usual" place - and symlinks 
> from eg ~/Pictures to locations on that external drive. This is
> probably 
> not a hugely uncommon set-up - thinking of people with large data
> drives 
> mounted at /data, Windows dual boot systems in /mnt/c, etc.
> 
> This is totally system-specific, and not knowable in advance by the 
> flatpak/apps themselves - so even if the app maintainer enabled
> home, 
> media, etc - it would not handle this case. Is it worth us
> considering 
> some kind of flatpakrc file which allows the user to feed in
> additional 
> command line arguments? Such as:

you can do:

flatpak override --filesystem=/mnt/sd:ro org.my.App

To add this. Or did you mean as some kind of generic catch-all option?

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