Flatsonar

Nova

by papi-ux

Your Polaris library on the Deck, streamed through Moonlight

Dangerous permissions Unverified publisher GPL-3.0-or-later
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About

Nova shows the games a paired Polaris host offers and opens the one you pick in Moonlight. It borrows the pairing Moonlight already made, so there is nothing to pair twice.

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
  • raw input devices (keyboards, mice, gamepads)
    --device=input
  • network
    --share=network
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to xdg-run/pipewire-0
    --filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0
  • access to xdg-run/gamescope-0
    --filesystem=xdg-run/gamescope-0
  • access to ~/.var/app/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight/config
    --filesystem=~/.var/app/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight/config:ro
  • access to ~/.local/share/Steam/userdata
    --filesystem=~/.local/share/Steam/userdata
  • access to ~/.steam/steam/userdata
    --filesystem=~/.steam/steam/userdata
  • access to ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/userdata
    --filesystem=~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/userdata
  • sets environment variable QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE
    --env=QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE=Material

Who publishes this

Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.

  • com.papi_ux.Nova is not under a namespace Flatsonar can check
    publisher:namespace

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.