"Background permission revoked" notification on launch on Debian 12 xfce

[ikaikahub]

When launching SyncThingy there is always a notification for missing background permission despite the application functioning normally and SyncThingy having permission to run in background

The notification in question:

System info:

[zocker-160]

This is a duplicate of #6.
Make sure you have xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk installed and running.

It could also be caused by a bug in XFCE, which denies the background permission request despite it being granted already.

There is sadly nothing I can do about this as I have to fully rely on the Desktop Portal implementation used by the DE.

[zocker-160]

Possibly relevant issues:

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/-/issues/159
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/-/issues/181

[iihmsunn]

I'm getting a similar notification on sway, but it doesn't seem to actually affect anything, the app still works just fine. Flatseal has background permission enabled. I assume background permission is not implemented at all in some portals so you need xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (or maybe kde) specifically for it to work properly

[voler88]

It can also be useful to read the documentation https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/portals.conf.html to add the necessary customization (for example, in sway it helped me to install xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and add org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Background=gnome to the config).