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xenophobic-harlequin
Is the Flathub version safe?
The version on Flathub is always more up-to-date than the one from my Linux distribution, but on the Heroic Games page on Flathub, it says 'Potentially Unsafe.' Is it safe to use?
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- "User device access" is necessary to be able to respond to controller inputs
- "Can access some specific files" is necessary for various things; Discord Rich Presence, Steam integration, umu
- "Legacy windowing system" just means Heroic is able to run on X11. We could change the option name to
fallback-x11 to avoid this warning I believesensitive-blue•2mo ago
Yeah the fallback x11 is a good idea, but maybe heroic runs on x11 by default because of electron?
Anyways, yes its fine, the native version has all these and more, since it has no sandboxing at all
Looked into this and yes,
fallback-x11 won't work since Electron won't use Wayland by default
I've made a PR to enable it for the beta branch for now: https://github.com/flathub/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/pull/237sensitive-blue•2mo ago
will it use wayland if x11 isnt there?
Yes
sensitive-blue•2mo ago
right, maybe its okay to set fallback only then?
Wayland support is considered experimental in Electron