Re: [orca-list] Flatpak
- From: Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>
- To: orca-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] Flatpak
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 21:53:21 -0500
There's probably some necessary magic, yes. I actually built an old
CHIRP flatpak years back, but I'm not sure if that's the one they're
using. I think flatpaks have to explicitly request access to the
accessibility bus. If they don't, the app just doesn't talk to Orca.
This *might* have changed but I doubt it due to how security-focused
flatpak is.
The solution is/was to set a universal override giving all flatpak apps
permissions to use the accessibility bus. In theory I suppose this is
still more secure for you since the other sandboxing is still in place.
The same is true for other types of overrides--setting
Chromium/QT-specific environment variables, for instance. You can also
universally inject environment variables into the sandbox as overrides.
I may have given you enough to search for your own solution, but if I
haven't then let me know and I can dig up a flatpak config file with the
needed overrides. I've got a couple on some old Linux hardware. Might
also be worth checking the flatpak manifests to see if they're
requesting the accessibility bus permissions, and contributing that
change upstream. Sorry I don't remember the specific names--they should
be easy enough to find in the docs/override CLI help.
On 6/2/2022 10:50 AM, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
Hi Glenn
There is no general rule about flatpaks' accessibility to Orca, it depends how
the were built.
As an aside Debian (as may other distributions) has a Chirp package built by
them from source.
Cheers,
Didier
Le 02/06/2022 à 17:23, K0LNY_Glenn a écrit :
Hi Group,
Does anyone know if programs ran in flatpak are accessible to Orca?
I'm having trouble with the program Chirp in Ubuntu 21.10 using flatpak, and
it is possible that it may be accessibility issues with flatpak.
Glenn
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