Flatsonar

Apx GUI

by Vanilla OS Contributors

Portable, reproducible development environments

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v1.1.0

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About

Apx GUI provides a user-friendly interface for Apx, a platform powered by Distrobox that streamlines dev environments into portable, reproducible subsystems. Originally created for Vanilla OS, it can also be installed on any Linux distribution.

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
  • 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-run/podman
    --filesystem=xdg-run/podman: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.