[Users] Attachments - can the window manger be changed ?

[Peter Richards]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 11:43:23 +0600
Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 14:28:42 +1000
> Peter Richards <peter777 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 22:57:16 -0000
> > Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 22:16:05 +0100
> > > Manfred Schmitt <claws at slashproc.org> wrote: 
> > >     
> > > > Ha, it seems the file chooser can indeed be configured to
> > > > various backends!      
> > > 
> > > I didn't know about this. Thanks for the tip.
> > >     
> > > > Does Claws-Mail implement the relatively new (?)
> > > > xdg-desktop-portal front-end service?      
> > > 
> > > Yes, it does. Using the following command to start claws-mail, for
> > > me on my KDE DE, does indeed use dolphin as the file chooser:
> > > 
> > > GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 claws-mail
> > > 
> > > We finally got the answer Peter wanted, and it didn't need any
> > > installing or changing DE.    
> > 
> > There is an opton in Dolphin to "only show a place in this
> > application (Dolphin)", and it was checked. I unchecked it and the
> > other places appeared with Claws Mail.
> > 
> > It's attached, but not sure if attachments can go to this list ?
> >   
> DM: The attachment came through fine, Peter. Looks like you got this
> sorted -- glad to hear it. 🙂️ ---Dustin

Yes, thanks for your help Dustin (and  others in this thread, thank you
), pretty much sorted, just the error message at 'terminal' ...

~/Mail$ GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 claws-mail

(claws-mail:23266): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 16:04:29.135:
gtk_window_set_transient_for: assertion 'GTK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(claws-mail:23266): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 16:04:29.135:
gtk_window_set_modal: assertion 'GTK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

Regards,

Peter


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