Flatsonar

CTL Dash

by Nikola Lazarov

Manage services

Dangerous permissions Verified creator MPL-2.0 v1.2.0
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About

CTL Dash is a systemd service manager for the COSMIC desktop environment that displays system and user services with their status.

Features:

  • View all systemd services with their current status
  • Manage both system-wide and user services
  • View detailed information about individual services
  • Start, stop, restart services from the UI
  • Enable and disable services
  • View service logs

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
  • systemd: can manage services
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.systemd1
  • systemd: can manage services
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.systemd1
  • 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 xdg-config/cosmic
    --filesystem=xdg-config/cosmic:ro

Who publishes this

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    publisher:flathub

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