Robert Phair
2018-08-09 15:42:36 UTC
On my Ubuntu 18.04 system, with Linphone 4.1.1 installed through
Flatpak, I am trying to change the values of Preferences > User
Interface > Paths, but I can't get any of these data types to be stored
outside the default of "Linphone" in my home directory.
Clicking the folder icon pops up a modal which looks like the GTK file
picker except that I cannot choose any folders outside of six default
locations (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos) which
also show up as "mount" locations (on my system, they are not). This
file picker cannot be used to select a folder as a file manager normally
would, being much more restrictive.
For instance, if I try to set these path values to ~/tmp/Linphone, I
cannot even see the "tmp" subdirectory of my home directory. I've tried
entering a pathname by hand but there's no confirmation of a successful
result. Regardless of what I do, Linphone always recreates an empty
~/Linphone/capture directory after every call in the same old place.
I've looked to how these parameters might be set outside the UI but
don't see anything relevant in ~/.linphonerc ... what can I try next?Â
Specifically, what must I do to change these default values in my
environment so it doesn't put everything in ~/Documents/Linphone ?
Flatpak, I am trying to change the values of Preferences > User
Interface > Paths, but I can't get any of these data types to be stored
outside the default of "Linphone" in my home directory.
Clicking the folder icon pops up a modal which looks like the GTK file
picker except that I cannot choose any folders outside of six default
locations (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos) which
also show up as "mount" locations (on my system, they are not). This
file picker cannot be used to select a folder as a file manager normally
would, being much more restrictive.
For instance, if I try to set these path values to ~/tmp/Linphone, I
cannot even see the "tmp" subdirectory of my home directory. I've tried
entering a pathname by hand but there's no confirmation of a successful
result. Regardless of what I do, Linphone always recreates an empty
~/Linphone/capture directory after every call in the same old place.
I've looked to how these parameters might be set outside the UI but
don't see anything relevant in ~/.linphonerc ... what can I try next?Â
Specifically, what must I do to change these default values in my
environment so it doesn't put everything in ~/Documents/Linphone ?