Hoping these posts serve as a useful spot for newcomers and the community to help fill up to support the devs and an easy spot to curate and merge into the documentation. Bluefin defaults to podman which is an excellent sensible default - podman - (rootless, best practice). However, little document…

Devpod works with docker seamlessly. Step 1: just docker Step 2: Connect devpod to docker I was just curious if people were using it with podman. One issue I’m having on bluefin however is that the ‘add to CLI’ button in devpod doesn’t work. I’ve been using this machine for mainly data scienc…

So I somewhat figured this out . under Docker Host put: unix:///var/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock under Docker path put: podman

Great thread @zartarr88 yes! same problem with flameshot! did you solve it?

Is this a viable solution? what do you mean by somewhat? :slightly_smiling_face:

It was working a couple months ago , after a couple updates it stopped but they introduced a ujust docker command . and I’ve just defaulted to docker for devpod.

Hi there, are you still having issues with Flatpak Flameshot? If yes this might help: Install Flameshot from Flathub Give Flameshot screenshot permissions: flatpak permission-set screenshot screenshot org.flameshot.Flameshot yes Bind shortcut via Settings: flatpak run --command=flameshot -u org.fl…

hi @mel226 , thanks for checking in! After having installed flameshot from flathub and run the first line: flatpak permission-set screenshot screenshot org.flameshot.Flameshot yes when I run the second line flatpak run --command=flameshot -u org.flameshot.Flameshot gui I’m getting this error: err…

Try removing -u in the command - my Flameshot install is on user level and not like Bluefin’s default system level Flatpak, completely forgot about that! If after this Flameshot runs, you can bind the command via Gnome Settings to a certain key combo, e.g. Super+Shift+S

ok great, what should I have for the command? [image]

flatpak run --command=flameshot org.flameshot.Flameshot gui

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Oh wow this is way cool!

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