Flatsonar

Refine

by Hari Rana (TheEvilSkeleton)

Tweak various aspects of GNOME

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v0.8.0

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About

Refine helps discover advanced and experimental features in GNOME.

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
  • access to operating-system files
    --filesystem=host-os:ro
  • dconf: all GNOME settings
    --talk-name=ca.desrt.dconf
  • 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/dconf
    --filesystem=xdg-run/dconf
  • access to xdg-config/dconf
    --filesystem=xdg-config/dconf

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.

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