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| author | Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> | 2025-07-16 09:33:02 -0500 |
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| committer | Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> | 2025-07-16 10:26:30 -0500 |
| commit | 2435cee11bc170c3c63089d5ff348ccb906b706d (patch) | |
| tree | 6313d0e14b02b775af80064ee7cb42d891b6b7a2 /dist/linux | |
| parent | f44c24ef88b9a663e760ad3a5a5866eb146b051e (diff) | |
linux/systemd: add an app- prefix to the systemd unit
The XDG Freedesktop Portal has a _major_ undocumented requirement for
programs that are launched/controlled by `systemd` to interact with the
Portal. The unit _must_ be named `app-<appid>.service`. The Portal uses
the systemd unit name figure out what the program's application ID is
and it will only look at unit names that begin with `app-`. I can find
no place that this is documented other than by inspecting the code or the
issue and PR that introduced this feature. See the following code:
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/7d4d48cf079147c8887da17ec6c3954acd5a285c/src/xdp-utils.c#L152-L220
This may fix many people's issues with getting global shortcuts
to work.
Note that this is a breaking change if you have been using Ghostty
compiled from source since #7433 was merged. You will need to ensure
that any Ghosty systemd unit files _not_ prefixed with `app-` are
deleted.
Original discussion/PR in the XDG Desktop Portal repository:
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/579
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/719
Originally discussed on Discord:
https://discord.com/channels/1005603569187160125/1394845362186879026
Co-authored-by: ambareeshbalaji@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'dist/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | dist/linux/dbus.service.in | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/dist/linux/dbus.service.in b/dist/linux/dbus.service.in index 2f782a7ed..df31a1abd 100644 --- a/dist/linux/dbus.service.in +++ b/dist/linux/dbus.service.in @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ [D-BUS Service] Name=@APPID@ -SystemdService=@APPID@.service +SystemdService=app-@APPID@.service Exec=@GHOSTTY@ --launched-from=dbus |