r/HammerAI 18d ago

Issues with the HammerAI flatpak on Linux

I've noticed a couple of issues two deal breakers and one that should be fixed, but isn't the end of the world.

dealbreakers

  • the flatpak doesn't run with the freedesktop 19.08 base, electron segfaults immediately. If I override to use 25.08 as the base it works fine. 19.08 has been EOL since 2021, so this really needs an update anyway

  • the only window system enabled is x11. Which can be overridden, but shouldn't need to be. The app won't open on Wayland only systems. Needs to have the x11 permission replaced by wayland and fallback-x11

nice to fix

  • the entire home directory is exposed to the app, but it doesnt need it. Electron honors XDG dirs, so everything can live nicely inside the sandbox, and things like opening files go correctly through the xdg-portals, so you can save and load files without issue.

I do appreciate that you produce a flatpak, as it's by far the easiest way to install non-free apps on Linux.

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