On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM Graham King <[email protected]> wrote:

> To cut a long story short, it turns out that Flatpak is designed to
> isolate each application within its own "sandbox".  From within a
> Flatpak, Frescobaldi is unable to run git to get the hash.  The amount
> of sleuthing needed to get from there to here is left to the reader's
> imagination.  A word of warning against Flatpak at
> https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/releases might save someone
> a lot of head-scratching in future.

If I'm not mistaken, this sounds like a job for ... no, not
Superman... ;-) Flatseal. Able to leap tall sandbox restrictions in a
single bound.  ;-)
Flatseal can grant a Flatpak application permission to muck about
outside of its sandbox.

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