Bug 824010

Summary:	flatpak XDG_DATA_DIRS
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Luke A. Guest <laguest>
Component:	Devmanual	Assignee:	Gentoo Devmanual Team <devmanual>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Luke A. Guest 2021-11-16 11:16:58 UTC

The guide https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Flatpak should mention setting this variable as the user gets the following warning:

Note that the directories 

'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/$USER/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'

are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the
session is restarted.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2021-11-16 11:36:00 UTC

Not a devmanual bug, and generally eiki page issues shouldn't be reported in Bugzilla but in the wiki itself.

You can either edit the Wiki yourself, or report the issue at the talk page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Flatpak

Closing (lacking a better alternative, using "invalid" as resolution).

Comment 2 Harris Landgarten 2021-11-17 02:08:27 UTC

If you add yourself to the flatpak group and reboot, it works.

Comment 3 Luke A. Guest 2021-11-17 03:32:19 UTC

(In reply to Harris Landgarten from comment #2)
> If you add yourself to the flatpak group and reboot, it works.

Not mentioned in the docs.