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Kovid Goyal
2025-07-16 08:55:58 +05:30
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@@ -113,3 +113,14 @@ Read the ``portals.conf`` man page and run::
this will output a lot of debug information, which should tell you which
backend is chosen for which service. Read the debug output carefully to
determine why the kitten is not being selected.
If some GUI applications are not using the choose-files kitten for their file
select dialogs, then make sure the environment variables mentioned above are
set, you can also try running the the GUI application with them set explicitly,
as::
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=xdgdesktopportal GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 my-gui-app
Note that not all applications use portals, so if some particular application
is failing to use the portal but others work, report the issue to that
applications' developers.