Earlier this morning, I was annoyed that I could not drag and drop files from a remote SSH server in Nautilus to Google Drive in Chromium... Instead, I would have to drag and drop the files from the SSH server to a local directory, and then drag and drop the files from that local directory to Google Drive.

While complaining about this on IRC to my friends, I realized that the most likely issue was that Chromium is a Flatpak and thus does not have the appropriate permissions to read the files directly from the SSH mount.

After some searching, I found this comment on on the Flathub GitHub:

https://github.com/flathub/org.freecadweb.FreeCAD/issues/22#issuecomment-622644735

Basically, I can give applications filesystem access to "xdg-run/gvfs" and talk access to "org.gtk.vfs". To do so, I used FlatSeal as shown below.

With these settings in place, I can now drag and drop from a remote SSH server in Nautilus to Google Drive in Chromium directly!

#flatpak #gvfs #nautilus #sshfs

wtf is #gvfs ?
I can't believe this crap. When I mount an smb with thunar or nautilus it will result in a mounted remote filesystem share that is SUPER slow and I even cannot open files at all. Also it get's mounted in some madeup subdirectory in /run/media or some stupid path nobody would ever search in.

When I use mount.cifs instead it's super fast and works transparently.
Who invents such crappy piece of wannabe software? I don't see the benefit of it though.
#linux

MB-Freigaben in Linux systemweit mounten: Warum dein NAS-Ordner im Programm fehlt und wie du ihn fixierst

Ich erkläre, wie man NAS-Ordner mounten kann, wenn sie in bestimmten Programmen fehlen.

#GVFS #CIFS #SMB #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/mb-freigaben-in-linux-systemweit-mounten

Finally found the correct answer today to the question of why, over 5 years since the #Samba project disabled the deprecated SMB1 protocol by default, GUI file browsers in #Linux still cannot browse SMB2 or SMB3 network shares.

It's a bug in #GNOME's #gvfs that apparently no one wants to fix or even can fix, and it affects all file browsers that use it.

I cannot simply click on my NAS unit and have it displays shares and login to it. I have to choose "Connect to Server…" from the menus.