Re: [orca-list] Flatpak

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

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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