Programs run through protontricks don't seem to have access to game directories

[BrainBlasted]

Hi there - I'm trying to get Skyrim SSE set up with Mod Organizer in protontricks. However, when using Explorer in prontricks to set the path to the game, I discovered that it wasn't mounted anywhere (as far as I can tell). I couldn't manager to navigate to my steam folder and point MO to my Skyrim directory.

I'm using the Steam flatpak and the protontricks flatpak. Filesystem permissions have not been modified from the defaults, so ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam access remains.

[Matoking]

You'll have to add permissions for the separate Steam library directories manually due to the Flatpak security model. Flatseal is probably the easiest option for this.

You can check the full path for the Steam library folders under Steam's Storage Manager (Settings -> Downloads -> Steam Library Folders -> check the path near the size utilization bar). You can add the path for each Steam library folder under Filesystem -> Other files in Flatseal.

[BrainBlasted]

I haven't changed my library path - adding ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam and ~/.local/share/Steam in Flatseal does not work as far as I can tell. I still haven't found a way to navigate to and access them from within protontricks.

[Matoking]

Starting with Protontricks 1.7.0, the application will print warnings for Steam library directories it cannot access, which usually happens because the Flatpak sandbox has insufficient filesystem permissions. If you still have the issue, could you check if it prints anything?

[equesvasil]

could you check if it prints anything?

protontricks (WARNING): Flatpak version is too old (<1.12.1) to support sub-sandboxes. Disabling bwrap. --no-bwrap will be ignored. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/app/bin/protontricks", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 28, in cli main(args) File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 143, in wrapper return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 220, in main run_command( File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/util.py", line 352, in run_command str(proton_app.proton_dist_path / "bin" / "wine") TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NoneType' and 'str'

[Matoking]

could you check if it prints anything?

protontricks (WARNING): Flatpak version is too old (<1.12.1) to support sub-sandboxes. Disabling bwrap. --no-bwrap will be ignored. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/app/bin/protontricks", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 28, in cli main(args) File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 143, in wrapper return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 220, in main run_command( File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/protontricks/util.py", line 352, in run_command str(proton_app.proton_dist_path / "bin" / "wine") TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NoneType' and 'str'

@equesvasil That seems to be a different problem. Could you create a new GitHub issue for this? You can try running Protontricks with the -v flag for additional details. For example, could you try running the following command to trigger the error?

$ flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks -v --gui