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@krafting you can use the background portal through libportal: https://libportal.org/method.Portal.request_background.html

Or you can call the DBus method directly: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Background.html

@ebassi Thank you, i'll try this XdpPortal thingy!

@krafting the basics are:

1. request background access
2. if successful, call Gio.Application.hold() to keep the instance alive even if the window is closed
3. on failure, log the issue and continue as normal

@ebassi Welp, I got it almost working. I get an error when trying to compile the flatpak thogh...

"ValueError: Namespace Xdp not available"

I import Xdp in python using

gi.require_version('Xdp', '1.0')
from gi.repository import Xdp

It works by running the script with python script.py but not in the flatpak...

Doesn't the org.gnome.Sdk/47 comes with Xdp ?

@krafting no, libportal is not currently in the run time, I'm afraid; you need to build it inside your manifest, like this: https://github.com/flathub/re.sonny.Workbench/blob/master/modules/libportal.json

It's enough to build the library: it comes with its own introspection data that can be loaded by pygobject.

@krafting it's a complicated question; libportal is not a stable API, so shipping it in the run time could cause issues when updating the dependency in applications: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/issues/496

@ebassi yeah I understand, maybe in the future then!