❦ 23 September 2021 17:09 +02, Vincent Bernat: > Let me reboot at the end of the day with just xdg-desktop-portal in > verbose mode, it may be enough to find the cause. If not, I will apply > your other tricks.
OK, a bit late, but on verbose, I get: Sep 30 07:57:56 chocobo xdg-desktop-portal[1730]: XDP: providing portal org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser Sep 30 07:57:56 chocobo xdg-desktop-portal[1730]: XDP: Falling back to gtk.portal for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.AppChooser Sep 30 07:58:21 chocobo xdg-desktop-portal[1730]: XDP: Failed to create FileManager proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.FileManager1: Timeout was reached Sep 30 07:58:21 chocobo xdg-desktop-portal[1730]: XDP: providing portal org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI Sep 30 07:58:21 chocobo xdg-desktop-portal[1730]: XDP: Falling back to gtk.portal for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Print I have Thunar installed and I think there may be just a dependency loop: Sep 30 07:58:21 chocobo dbus-daemon[1433]: [session uid=1000 pid=1433] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop' Sep 30 07:58:22 chocobo dbus-daemon[1433]: [session uid=1000 pid=1433] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.FileManager1' 08:07 ❱ journalctl -b0 --user-unit=thunar.service -- Journal begins at Sun 2021-08-01 16:26:21 CEST, ends at Thu 2021-09-30 08:05:07 CEST. -- Sep 30 07:57:56 chocobo systemd[1402]: Starting Thunar file manager... Sep 30 07:58:22 chocobo systemd[1402]: Started Thunar file manager. So, the bug may be more in Thunar. This looks like: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929490 https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/ptwd6p/thunar_and_xdgdesktopportal_block_each_other/ Personally, I don't care much about org.freedesktop.FileManager1 and I would prefer this dbus service to not be provided at all. I'll try to mask thunar.service to avoid this. -- I do desire we may be better strangers. -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"