kitten-deskt...enable-portal(1)

🌸 kitten-desktop-ui-enable-portal(1) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the kitten Manual — this is the page for kitten-desktop-ui-enable-portal, and yes the title is a whole mouthful, we're just gonna roll with it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

kitten-desktop-ui-enable-portal — this one creates or edits all the various files you need so that the portal from this kitten actually gets used by xdg-desktop-portal 🫶

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

kitten desktop-ui enable-portal

that's it. that's the whole vibe. run it. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍓 — once you run this command, you go add:

kitten desktop-ui run-server

to your window manager startup sequence, and then you reboot your computer (or logout and restart your session, same energy), and hopefully xdg-desktop-portal should now delegate to kitty for the portals implemented here. fingers crossed, manifesting, all of that 🙈

and if it doesn't? bestie, don't panic, we have a debugging arc 😭 run:

/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal -r -v

it will give you a LOT of logging about why it's choosing different portal backends. literally so much logging. that, combined with a careful reading of man portals.conf, should be enough to learn how to convince xdg-desktop-portal to use kitty. iykyk 👑

also!! you can change the system color-scheme dynamically whenever you want, by running:

kitten desktop-ui set-color-scheme dark

main character energy, changing your whole color scheme on a whim 💜

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --help, -h [=no] — show help for this command. that's the one. that's the whole list. iconic honestly ⭐

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ok one tiny note: that [=no] on --help is exactly how it's written, so don't come for me, i'm just the messenger 💀

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and that's the page!! this was kitten-deskt...enable-portal(1) from kitten Manual, version 0.42.1, dated Jul 14, 2025. slay, go enable that portal, ily, bye 🎀🦋💖