Switchyard
by Aly Raffauf
Rules-based browser launcher
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Flatsonar is just the shop window. The people below made Switchyard.
About
Switchyard puts you in control of where links open and what they open. Work links go to Chrome, personal links to Firefox. You decide the rules.
Create rules using simple domain, keyword, wildcard, or regex matching. Combine conditions for precise control. Strip tracking parameters or redirect to privacy-friendly alternatives before links even open. Set it once and forget it.
Browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome let you send the current page to any of your installed browsers.
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 - read-only access to your entire file system
--filesystem=host:ro - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - access to /var/lib/flatpak
--filesystem=/var/lib/flatpak:ro - access to /var/lib/snapd
--filesystem=/var/lib/snapd:ro - access to xdg-data/applications
--filesystem=xdg-data/applications:ro - access to xdg-data/flatpak
--filesystem=xdg-data/flatpak:ro
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.
- verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
publisher:flathub
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.