Flatsonar

Geobug

by Teemu Ikonen

Check your location and save it to a GPX track

Broad permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-only v0.9.1
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About

Geobug is an adaptive client for GeoClue, the geolocation service from freedesktop.org. It can display your location information (coordinates, speed etc.) and save a track of your movements to a GPX-file.

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • access to unrecognised path 'xdg-documents/geobug-tracks:create'
    --filesystem=xdg-documents/geobug-tracks:create
  • talks to system service org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.*
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.*
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • talks to org.gtk.vfs.*
    --talk-name=org.gtk.vfs.*

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

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