FLATPAK-PERMISSION-SET(1)

✨ FLATPAK-PERMISSION-SET — the flatpak permission-set manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so you opened the manual for flatpak permission-set, part of the flatpak fam 💖. Buckle up, this one's short and sweet and lowkey powerful.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

flatpak-permission-set — literally just: set permissions. that's the whole vibe. 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

flatpak permission-set [OPTION...] TABLE ID APP_ID [PERMISSION...]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea ☕ — this command sets the permissions for an application inside an entry in the permission store. the entry is identified by TABLE and ID, and the app is identified by APP_ID. periodt.

the PERMISSION strings you pass in must be in a format suitable for the table. yes, the table decides. not you. not me. the table. 🙈

and what even is the permission store? it's the thing portals use 🫶. each portal generally has its own table in the permission store, and the format of those table entries is specific to each portal — so no, there's not one universal format, iykyk. each portal does its own thing. iconic behaviour honestly.

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

here's everything this command understands, no gatekeeping:

• -h, --help — show help options and dip out. classic. 👋
• --data=DATA — associate DATA with the entry. plot twist: the data must be a serialized GVariant. not vibes. an actual serialized GVariant. 💀
• -v, --verbose — print debug information while the command is doing its thing. for when you need to see everything. 🔍
• --ostree-verbose — print OSTree debug information while the command is processing. extra deep, extra detailed. 🌈

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🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

a lil demo, because seeing it >> reading about it:

$ flatpak permission-set --data "{'always-ask':<true>}"
desktop-used-apps text/plain org.mozilla.Firefox org.gnome.gedit 0 3

look at that. TABLE is desktop-used-apps, ID is text/plain, APP_ID is org.mozilla.Firefox, and the permissions are org.gnome.gedit, 0, and 3. slay. 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read the rest of the family, they're all linked:

• flatpak(1)
• flatpak-permissions(1)
• flatpak-permission-remove(1)
• flatpak-permission-reset(1)
• flatpak-permission-show(1)

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that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 🍓. this was the flatpak permission-set manual from the flatpak source, dated under the FLATPAK PERMISSION-(1) banner — mwah, ily, go set some permissions responsibly 💜✨