Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r13.0-1287

Chapter 25. Graphical Environment Libraries

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr-0.8.3

Introduction to xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

The xdg-desktop-portal-wlr package provides the screenshot and screencast portal interfaces for wlroots compositors. Most of the other portal interfaces are provided by xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-1.15.3, but isn't strictly required unless you need those interfaces.

[Note]

Note

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 13.1 platform.

Package Information

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr Dependencies

Required

Mesa-26.1.7, inih-62, libdrm-2.4.134, Systemd-261.2, pipewire-1.6.8, Wayland-1.26.0, wayland-protocols-1.49, and xdg-desktop-portal-1.22.1

Recommended

xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-1.15.3 (for providing most portals interfaces like getting the preferred file manager)

Optional

scdoc

Installation of xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

Install xdg-desktop-portal-wlr by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr       \
            --buildtype=release \
            .. &&
ninja

This package doesn't come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Ensure the portal can be detected as the root user: 

cat > /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/wlr-portals.conf << "EOF"
[preferred]
default=wlr
EOF

Contents

Installed Programs: one daemon in /usr/libexec
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal (if no other xdg-desktop-portal backend is installed)