So I finally switched my desktop from windows to EOS after using of running headless linux servers.

I’m having a good time of it but I want to be one of the cool kids and use a tiling windows manager. And ive been loving that too. Except I can’t get links to open from discord and steam can’t open the file browser. I could just boot into KDE or GNOME to add non-steam games to my library but I don’t want to goddamnit. What can I do to start fixing this issue? Haven’t found any solutions online.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    The commenter talking about xdg desktop portal is correct for the file picker; you need to install a portal for that.

    I can’t get links to open from discord

    Are you using dbus? Display managers normally will launch graphical sessions with dbus for you, but if you’re manually launching from the tty, use dbus-run-session sway (or the name of the executable you want to run). dbus is used for applications to communicate with each other, e.g. Discord to communicate with your browser. And you need dbus installed and the daemon running, of course.

    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      9 minutes ago

      I don’t know what dbus is but I am launching sway through ly so… maybe? I’ll check.

      Edit: a very brief google search with ly and dbus says no, it does not launch dbus correctly. So Ill go ahead and look into that

  • Chaser@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Welcome to Sway club! 😜 This sounds like you haven’t installed an xdg desktop portal (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal) I personally installed the gnome ones. However you can pick any of these. They provide stuff like file pickers, etc. Regarding the links there was a command to set the default app for different mime types using xdg-open. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find it.

    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      10 minutes ago

      Thanks! This fixed part of my problem lol. The “browse local files” button works but if I want to add a non steam game or customize said non steam game with images, that still doesnt work. Which is… Odd.