Flatpak does not keep the settings

[flokosx]

Hi guys

In a clean installation of Kubuntu 24.04, after installing FLATPAK support and give all kinds of FLATPAK permission, several flatpaks (Qbitorrent, Clementine and others) present the behavior of returning default configurations when they are opened again, as if they are finished being installed. I've tried to give permission of all kinds, I made a new installation, opened some bug signals in Github but no one can say what is happening and how to solve.

Does any enlightened give me a way?

[Tadaen_Sylvermane]

Make sure /home/$USER/.var has the right permissions and is either actually there or bind mounted. Symlinks cause odd behavior with that folder in my experience.

[flokosx]

I just gave all the writing and reading permits to VAR folder, to all users, but the error continues

[#&thj^%]

Mine:

stat /home/$USER/.var/
  File: /home/me/.var/
  Size: 3         	Blocks: 1          IO Block: 512    directory
Device: 0,46	Inode: 135930      Links: 3
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/      me)   Gid: ( 1000/      me)
Access: 2024-06-04 20:07:49.433462091 -0600
Modify: 2024-05-27 16:12:06.216701384 -0600
Change: 2024-06-04 20:38:22.592799143 -0600
 Birth: 2024-06-04 20:25:43.079420282 -0600

No problems here.
EDIT: to see

flatpak run --command=bash tv.kodi.Kodi
[📦 tv.kodi.Kodi ~]$ echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
/home/me/.var/app/tv.kodi.Kodi/config

[flokosx]

The first command resulted in this output:

Arquivo: /home/bruno/.var/
Tamanho: 4096 Blocos: 8 bloco de E/S: 4096 diretório
Dispositivo: 259,2 Inode: 25169166 Ligações: 3
Acesso: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/ bruno) Gid: ( 1000/ bruno)
Acesso: 2024-07-13 14:19:56.838670776 -0300
Modificação: 2024-07-13 13:22:05.059572358 -0300
Alteração: 2024-07-13 14:19:56.788670049 -0300
Criação: 2024-07-13 13:22:05.059572358 -0300

Could you put the second command syntax? I didn't get out of command

[#&thj^%]

Could you put the second command syntax? I didn't get out of command

Sure, your very liberal with those permissions "777" but I get why you have that currently.
Please show this:

flatpak list

Then take one of those installed ie, mine:

flatpak list
Name                       Application ID                      Version    Branch      Installation
Flatseal                   com.github.tchx84.Flatseal          2.2.0      stable      system
Freedesktop Platform       org.freedesktop.Platform            23.08.20   23.08       system
Mesa                       org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.1.1     23.08       system
Mesa (Extra)               org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.1.1     23.08-extra system
nvidia-555-58-02           …sktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-555-58-02            1.4         system
openh264                   org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264   2.1.0      2.2.0       system
openh264                   org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264   2.4.1      2.4.1       system
GNOME Application Platfor… org.gnome.Platform                             46          system
KDE Application Platform   org.kde.Platform                               5.15-23.08  system
Tor Browser Launcher       org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher  0.3.7      stable      system
Kodi                       tv.kodi.Kodi                        21.0-Omega stable      system

Lets look with TorBrowser this time:

flatpak run --command=bash org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher 
[�� org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher ~]$

Same window on the same prompt:

flatpak run --command=bash org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher 
[�� org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher ~]$  echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

After that hit return/enter and now:

/home/me/.var/app/org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher/config

"me is my user here"
If I need to look deeper then:

ls -la /home/me/.var/app/org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher/config
total 11
drwxrwxr-x 4 me me 5 May 27 16:12 .
drwxrwxr-x 7 me me 7 May 27 16:12 ..
drwxrwxr-x 3 me me 3 May 27 16:12 ibus
drwxrwxr-x 2 me me 3 Jun  5 12:52 torbrowser
-r--rw-r-- 1 me me 0 May  8 06:20 user-dirs.dirs

Have you considered installing flatseal, it might just help.

[flokosx]

1- My command "flatpak run --command=bash org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent", returns nothing

2- Unlike your system, mine does not return:"[�� org.qbitorrent.qbitorrent ~] $"

3- Flatseal was installed and open and already had all the permission released, which I don't even know what it is for.

4-I'm desperate, this explains why I am "very liberal" in the permission I give

[#&thj^%]

Yep Mine with qBittorrent:

flatpak run --command=bash org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent
bash: 0: command not found
Welcome to  me
 
Saturday 13 July 2024, 14:24:30
Memory Usage: 5921/13829MB (42.82%)
Support - https://www.ubuntuforums.org (Right click, Open Link)

Will you now show me this:

 flatpak run org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent

I just installed qBittorrent as a flatpak and first run I set my settings, then logged out and back in again and all settings were saved.

Since you installed flatpak and added the right remote hub, have you yet rebooted?

[flokosx]

Yes, many times.

Strange thing. I installed the version .Deb together with the FlatPak version and the two began to present the same behavior! Only after I remove the FLATPAK version did the .Deb version return to function as expected. That's weird!? I didn't know that both architectures could share something in common!

[#&thj^%]

Strange Indeed. I'm on Arch ATM, Let me boot to ubuntu where qBittorrent is a .deb.
Be back soon.