Firefox Doesn't Detect My Windows Partition

[Kresimir]

So, you know the full path to the mountpoint, so you can type it in the name field.

[pebcak]

So, can’t you just go to /mnt/DAB6E106B6E0E44B in the dialog box?

[laclilac]

I tried typing in the full path and it worked.
So I guess no issue on the mounting, but more of the dialogue window?

[Kresimir]

Exactly. Mark my post above as the solution, please

Get used to crappy dialogues or try with the xdg-desktop-portal-kde…

[laclilac]

I will try this.
Why do I get the GNOME dialogue tho? Isn’t supposed to be Dolphin?

[Kresimir]

Because Firefox is like that… Everyone gets GNOME (GTK) dialogues on Firefox, unfortunately. There is a hack to replace these dialogues with native Qt dialogues used on Plasma, but it’s a hack – it is usable, but a bit buggy.

[laclilac]

I just installed xdg-desktop-portal-kde

How do I set the environtment variable GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 ?

[pebcak]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_Variables

[Kresimir]

Install the following packages:

sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-kde

Now test that it works, by running Firefox from the command line like this:

GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 firefox

If it does, you can set it permanently in two ways:

Either edit the .desktop file for Firefox and just add GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 to the exec line.

Or alternatively, create a script file in /etc/profile.d/ with

GTK_USE_PORTAL=1

This will set it for all users for all applications (may or may not be what you want).

You can do it in one line, like this:

echo "export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1" | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/gtkportal.sh

And then reboot. If you get sick of it, just delete the file above:

sudo rm /etc/profile.d/gtkportal.sh

[laclilac]

I followed all of your instructions and it now uses the qt dialogue.
I’m not noticing any weird things so far.

Thanks!