From 46cebeb8fd93f29814ce757bc8b9131b74ad9736 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Fainberg <mail@daniel.fainberg.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 13:56:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(desktop): add GTK portal so file dialogs work

Home-manager's Hyprland module enables `xdg.portal` and pins the portal
search dir to the user profile with only the Hyprland backend, which has
no FileChooser implementation. File dialogs in Chromium/Electron apps
(signal, brave) fail with a DBus "No such interface
org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser" error. Add `xdg-desktop-portal-gtk`
at the home-manager layer (system-level extraPortals aren't in the pinned
dir) and route FileChooser to it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 modules/home.nix  | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 modules/nixos.nix |  5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/home.nix b/modules/home.nix
index a4b0891..3df407d 100644
--- a/modules/home.nix
+++ b/modules/home.nix
@@ -288,6 +288,22 @@ in
     gtk2.configLocation = "${config.xdg.configHome}/gtk-2.0/gtkrc";
   };
 
+  # The home-manager Hyprland module below enables xdg.portal and pins the
+  # portal search dir (NIX_XDG_DESKTOP_PORTAL_DIR) to this user profile, adding
+  # only the Hyprland backend — which implements Screenshot/ScreenCast/
+  # GlobalShortcuts but not FileChooser. Add the GTK portal here (system-level
+  # extraPortals aren't in the pinned dir, so they're never seen) and route
+  # FileChooser to it, else file dialogs in Chromium/Electron apps (signal,
+  # brave) fail with a DBus "No such interface
+  # org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser" error.
+  xdg.portal = {
+    extraPortals = [ pkgs.xdg-desktop-portal-gtk ];
+    config.common = {
+      default = [ "hyprland" "gtk" ];
+      "org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser" = [ "gtk" ];
+    };
+  };
+
   wayland.windowManager.hyprland = {
     enable = true;
     configType = "hyprlang";
diff --git a/modules/nixos.nix b/modules/nixos.nix
index babfb31..85d8006 100644
--- a/modules/nixos.nix
+++ b/modules/nixos.nix
@@ -96,7 +96,10 @@
   # so the Secret Service is open without a second passphrase.
   security.pam.services.greetd.enableGnomeKeyring = true;
 
-  # XDG portals (screen sharing, file pickers, and so on).
+  # XDG portals (screen sharing, file pickers, and so on). The GTK portal (for
+  # file dialogs) is added at the home-manager layer, not here: home-manager's
+  # Hyprland module pins the portal search dir to the user profile, so a portal
+  # listed in this system-level extraPortals is never seen. See modules/home.nix.
   xdg.portal = {
     enable = true;
     extraPortals = [ pkgs.xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland ];