Xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

Desktop Environments Cinnamon
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Firefox is opening very slow on on Cinnamon since some of the latest updates. I removed xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and now it works normal again. I notice a lot of different xdg-desktop-portal packages? Removing the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome seems to fix the issue. I’m not having this problem on Plasma only Cinnamon. I guess this package isn’t really needed? Or should some of the others be removed instead. Plasma doesn’t seem to show these packages?

Edit: These are the packages installed on Cinnamon

xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (currently removed)
xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
xdg-desktop-portal-xapp

Edit2: None of these xdg packages are installed on plasma? :thinking:

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Check the reverse dependency for them to see what in you Cinnamon is dependent on them.

There is xdg-desktop-portal-kde as well but perhaps you don’t have anything on your plasma requiring it.

:eye: https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=xdg-desktop-portal

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I guess the question is do i need only one of them? Or any? I removed xdg-desktop-portal-gnome to make Firefox open properly otherwise it just takes forever.

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There have been numerous reports about this causing slow-down on non-GNOME DE:s.

Only you can answer that by checking the reverse dependency for them.

Example:

pactree -r xdg-desktop-portal-xapp

… et ainsi de suite!

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They all come back with cinnamon? Except xdg-desktop-portal-gnome since i uninstalled it. Does that mean they are required by cinnamon?

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cinnamon requires xdg-portal-desktop-xapp which in turn requires …

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I ran it on xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

[ricklinux@eos-cinn ~]$ [ricklinux@eos-cinn ~]$ pactree -r xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
└─xdg-desktop-portal
  └─xdg-desktop-portal-xapp
    └─cinnamon
[ricklinux@eos-cinn ~]$

I guess this means it’s not really needed?

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I have xdg-desktop-portal-kde installed as a dependency of meta

pacman -Qs xdg-desktop-portal-kde                                                                                                                           Di 04 Jul 2023 13:04:42 CEST
local/xdg-desktop-portal-kde 5.27.6-1 (plasma)
    A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt/KF5


pactree -r xdg-desktop-portal-kde                                                                                                                  3756ms  Di 04 Jul 2023 13:05:02 CEST
xdg-desktop-portal-kde
├─plasma-meta
└─xdg-desktop-portal
  └─flatpak
    └─flatpak-kcm

didnt notice any issue on my Plasma

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I don’t have any on plasma but on Cinnamon Firefox started opening really slowly. So i removed this and now it works. I just wanted to be sure it’s okay. :thinking:

Edit: I can see it’s needed for flatpaks.

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On the contrary!

But since you have also:

You could remove the former without breaking dependencies. These being fulfilled by the latter.

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Which one should i remove?

Edit: I just want Firefox to launch properly.

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You don’t need xdg-desktop-portal-gnome on non-GNOME DE:s.

Leave the other three as is.

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Flatpak comes with Plasmabut i have turned them off.
Probably i can deinstall Flatpak? I dont know

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I don’t have flatpak on my plasma?

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But isn’t Cinnamon based on gnome?

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Here is how it looks for me on Discover

flatpakdiscover
flatpakdiscover1920×1080 135 KB

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No, not exactly.

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Discover is no longer on Kde on EndeavourOS. So i don’t have it.

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Ok, I installed the complete Plasma- pack. This explains it

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I thought Cinnamon and Budgie are based on Gnome? Not exactly? Okay!