Searched for a few weeks and could not find any solid solution. Found a KDE thread that said it was a issue with flatpak but I don’t even have flatpak installed. Others say it’s Wayland, Do non KDE users on wayland get this too?
I know it’s for security but it’s too damned annoying to be worth it! Should I setup a tiling WM and be done with it? It really is that bad.
All I want to do is play Skyrim without seeing this every 15 minutes!
No, that’s completely wrong. Like I said, Xwayland doesn’t remember the permission, which xdg-desktop-portal-kde would very much support.
You get the exact same prompts every single time on Gnome too.
I am quite confused now.
You seem to be either quite confident or quite knowledgable about this, or both.
If the issue is Xwayland doesn’t remember the permission… why does clicking to grant access work at all, even temporarily?
If the issue is Xwayland doesn’t have the ability to set the permission at all, even temporarily, which it seems to, why is Xwayland not just automatically shunting the actual directive to set the permission over to xdg-desktop-portal, which you say can correctly handle this, on kde.
As I understand it, thats what is supposed to be happening.
The problem is not just that the prompt happens once, the first time you use a new input. There doesn’t seem to be any way to avoid that with Wayland.
The problem is that this prompt keeps happening and is not remembered.
How can it be the case that XWayland can grant you an app temporary permission, but not permanent?
And again… I solved the ‘permission not getting remembered’ problem by switching to Bazzite GNOME.
To me, this strongly implies a disparity in handling this issue between KDE and GNOME… that or Bazzite is doing some kind of special something that others are not.