Flatsonar

jdFlatpakSnapshot

by JakobDev

A Program to create Snapshots of Flatpak Apps

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0 v2.2
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About

Have you ever wanted to create a snapshot of a program's data and roll back to it if something went wrong? Now you can do that with jdFlatpakSnapshot! This program allows you to create a snapshot of all the data of a Flatpak, and with just a few clicks, you can roll back all the data to the snapshot if necessary.

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 ~/.var/app
    --filesystem=~/.var/app
  • access to /var/lib/flatpak
    --filesystem=/var/lib/flatpak:ro
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • access to xdg-data/flatpak
    --filesystem=xdg-data/flatpak:ro
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
    --talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify
  • talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
    --talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings

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  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

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