XdpPortal

Detects if running inside of a Flatpak or WebKit sandbox.

This function tries to determine if the current process is running under a sandbox that requires the use of portals.

Detects if you are running inside of a Snap sandbox.

Request access to a camera.

Finishes a camera acess request.

Sends a desktop notification.

Finishes the notification request.

Presents a window that lets the user compose an email, with some pre-filled information.

Finishes the compose-email request.

Creates a session for remote desktop.

Finishes the create-remote-desktop request, and returns a XdpSession.

Creates a session for a screencast.

Finishes the create-screencast request, and returns a XdpSession.

This function gets the contents of a .desktop file that was previously installed by the dynamic launcher portal.

This function gets the icon associated with a .desktop file that was previously installed by the dynamic launcher portal.

This function completes installation of a launcher so that the icon and name given in previous method calls will show up in the desktop environment’s menu.

Presents a dialog to the user so they can confirm they want to install a launcher to their desktop.

Finishes the prepare-install-launcher request, and returns GVariant dictionary with the following information:

Requests a token which can be passed to xdp_portal_dynamic_launcher_install() to complete installation of the launcher without user interaction.

This function uninstalls a launcher that was previously installed using the dynamic launcher portal, resulting in the .desktop file and icon being deleted.

Gets information about the user.

Finishes the get-user-information request.

Returns whether any camera are present.

Makes XdpPortal start monitoring location changes.

Finishes a location-monitor request.

Stops location monitoring that was started with xdp_portal_location_monitor_start().

Opens the directory containing the file specified by the uri.

Finishes the open-directory request.

Asks the user to open one or more files.

Finishes the open-file request.

Opens a file descriptor to the pipewire remote where the camera nodes are available.

Opens uri with an external handler.

Finishes the open-uri request.

Lets the user pick a color from the screen.

Finishes a pick-color request.

Presents a print dialog to the user and returns print settings and page setup.

Finishes the prepare-print request.

Prints a file.

Finishes the print request.

Withdraws a desktop notification.

Requests background permissions.

Finishes the request.

Asks the user for a location to save a file.

Finishes the save-file request.

Asks for a folder as a location to save one or more files.

Finishes the save-files request.

Inhibits various session status changes.

Finishes the inhbit request.

This method should be called within one second of receiving a XdpPortal::session-state-changed signal with the ‘Query End’ state, to acknowledge that they have handled the state change.

Makes XdpPortal start monitoring the login session state.

Finishes a session-monitor request.

Stops session state monitoring that was started with xdp_portal_session_monitor_start().

Removes an inhibitor that was created by a call to xdp_portal_session_inhibit().

Sets a desktop background image, given by a uri.

Finishes the open-uri request.

Creates a new copy of the applications sandbox, and runs a process in, with the given arguments.

Finishes the spawn request.

Sends a Unix signal to a process that has been spawned by xdp_portal_spawn().

Takes a screenshot.

Finishes a screenshot request.

Sends the file at path to the trash can.

Finishes the trash-file request.

Installs an available software update.

Finishes an update-installation request.

Makes XdpPortal start monitoring for available software updates.

Finishes an update-monitor request.

Stops update monitoring that was started with xdp_portal_update_monitor_start().