Flatsonar

WineCharm

by Mohammed Asif Ali Rizvan

A Charming Wine GUI

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v1.4
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About

WineCharm is a graphical user interface (GUI) application designed to simplify running and managing Windows applications on Linux using Wine. Built with Python and GTK4/Libadwaita, it provides an intuitive interface for launching .exe and .msi files, managing Wine prefixes, templates, and runners, and creating portable backups.

Key features include support for both GUI and headless modes, single prefix mode for space efficiency, desktop shortcuts, and compatibility with .prefix, .bottle, and .wzt backup files.

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Permissions

4 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • development features (ptrace, can inspect other processes in its sandbox)
    --allow=devel
  • talks to system service org.freedesktop.UDisks2
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.UDisks2
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • access to ~/.local/share/applications
    --filesystem=~/.local/share/applications
  • access to ~/.wine
    --filesystem=~/.wine
  • access to your music folder
    --filesystem=xdg-music
  • access to ~/.var/app/com.playonlinux.PlayOnLinux4/data/PlayOnLinux/wineprefix
    --filesystem=~/.var/app/com.playonlinux.PlayOnLinux4/data/PlayOnLinux/wineprefix:ro
  • access to your videos folder
    --filesystem=xdg-videos
  • access to your pictures folder
    --filesystem=xdg-pictures
  • access to your download folder
    --filesystem=xdg-download
  • access to ~/.var/app/org.winehq.Wine/data/wine
    --filesystem=~/.var/app/org.winehq.Wine/data/wine:ro
  • access to your documents folder
    --filesystem=xdg-documents
  • access to ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles
    --filesystem=~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles:ro
  • access to your desktop folder
    --filesystem=xdg-desktop
  • access to ~/.var/app/org.phoenicis.playonlinux/.Phoenicis/containers/wineprefix
    --filesystem=~/.var/app/org.phoenicis.playonlinux/.Phoenicis/containers/wineprefix:ro
  • access to ~/.var/app/io.github.fastrizwaan.WineZGUI/data/winezgui
    --filesystem=~/.var/app/io.github.fastrizwaan.WineZGUI/data/winezgui
  • multi-architecture binaries
    --allow=multiarch

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.

  • fetches from savannah.nongnu.org over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes
    source:insecure-url
  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source (x2)
    source:prebuilt
  • 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.