LACT as a flatpak

akarypid · April 6, 2025, 9:37pm

Interesting news! Hope this will work on ublue distros:

flatpak/README.md

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# Flatpak information

LACT is available as a Flatpak package. 
However, due to sandbox restrictions, there are some extra steps needed to achieve full functionality.

LACT uses a system daemon to interact with the GPU and manage configuration.
For access to hardware and system settings the daemon needs to run as root.

When you run the flatpak and the daemon is not detected, you will get a prompt to install it outside of the sandbox.
This will automatically set up and start the system service. It is installed at `/etc/systemd/system/lactd.service`.

If the setup was successful, you will now be able to use all of the functionality.

Service status can be checked with `systemctl status lactd`.

It is also possible to skip the service setup if you want to use LACT only for information and monitoring. This can work entirely in the Flatpak sandbox and does not require extra permissions.

> Note: the setup script requires Polkit to be functional.

## Service permissions

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j0rge · April 6, 2025, 9:54pm

We’ve been working with the author on this, gonna be

akarypid · April 6, 2025, 9:55pm

Couldn’t resist testing on my laptop… So far so good!

My desktop has an RX6800 so will be trying it there soon!!!

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