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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Funny thing, it repacks a deb package.
See manifest.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is the a downside to repacking the deb package? They're basically just zip files of the same binary you'd run on most other Linux distros.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't say that. Rather it's just a trivia.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Totally fair. I'm curious to see if anyone else may have reasons why it might be suboptimal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Reposting the link from another comment on here, there is a PR to build the flatpak from source https://github.com/flathub/com.bitwarden.desktop/pull/222

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why on Flathub it says that it "uses legacy windowing system", but there is granted permission to use Wayland socket in manifest?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably because there's also permission to use the X11 socket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, its certainly not because of that.

Many apps have both permissions simultaneously and theres no warning. In this case X11 is used as a fallback if wayland is not used.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In this case X11 is used as a fallback if wayland is not used.

It prefers X11, and Wayland can be enabled through the ozone layer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, but why there's a warning on flathub that it uses legacy windowing system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Because it will always use X11 unless you tell it not to.