Flatsonar

Gridge

by ScarletPachydermDev

Add streaming sites and cloud gaming services as Steam shortcuts

Dangerous permissions Verified creator Archived MIT v1.3.3
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About

Gridge lets you type a URL or a known streaming/cloud-gaming service name, finds matching artwork on SteamGridDB, and creates a non-Steam shortcut so it shows up as a native-looking tile in Steam's Game Mode -- built for Steam hardware in mind.

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
  • 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-data/Steam
    --filesystem=xdg-data/Steam:rw
  • access to ~/.steam
    --filesystem=~/.steam:rw
  • access to ~/.var/app
    --filesystem=~/.var/app:rw

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • git source tracks a moving branch: what gets built can change without the manifest changing
    source:unpinned
  • hosted by github.com/scarletpachydermdev, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.ScarletPachydermDev.Gridge
    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.