I have the flatpak version of the Distill app installed on my Archlinux system and the “Open this page in default browser” button is not working. Click it and nothing happens.
Any solution to this?
Hello @wouter,
Welcome to Distill Forums and thank you for reporting your issue here.
The Electron app relies on xdg-utils to provide this functionality. Could you please make sure that the xdg-utils package is installed in your OS.
Additionally, please confirm that a default browser is properly configured in your OS. You can follow the steps outlined here:
Electron apps are not being able to open external links
There’s also an ongoing discussion about a similar issue here
If the issue persists after trying these steps, please let us know. We’ll be happy to provide further guidance to help debug it.
Looking forward to your update.
Thanks for your reply.
I suspected an issue with xdg, but I’m still a newcomer to Linux.
Using your tips and links and some further research, I was able to determine that it was an issue with the xdg-desktop-portal not making a connection between flatplak apps and xfce4 desktop environment.
Installing xdg-desktop-portal-xapp did it for my system… I’m happy!
Thank you for the assistance.
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Glad to hear you got it working! Thanks for sharing the fix, and feel free to reach out if you run into anything else.