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xdg-desktop-portal installed, but service could not be found.

Asked by you-nerd

I'm not sure if this is intentional or if it is a bug so I am asking as a question here.

an entry can be found when running `journalctl` as follows:
`pipewire[1991]: mod.rt: Can't find org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop. Is xdg-desktop-portal running?`
`pipewire[1991]: mod.rt: found session bus but no portal`

running `systemctl status xdg-desktop-portal.service` returns the following:
`Unit xdg-desktop-portal.service could not be found.`

`dpkg -s xdg-desktop-portal | grep Status` returns:
`Status: install ok installed`

however, `systemctl start xdg-desktop-portal.service` returns:
`Failed to start xdg-desktop-portal.service: Access denied`
`See system logs and 'systemctl status xdg-desktop-portal.service' for details.`

I am running 23.04 daily build (stock) with Ubuntu Studio installed on top of it (all metapackages besides ubuntustudio-pulseaudio-config & PPA-ubuntustudio-backports).

I am in the process of understanding this distro a little better, and also in the process of setting up virtual audio devices. This is how I became aware of the issue.

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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) said (last edit ): 		#1

Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio are not separate distributions. Ubuntu Studio is merely an official flavor, or respin, of Ubuntu. Please keep the question with the distribution.

Furthermore, the Ubuntu Studio PPA is not open for business yet in Lunar and is unsupported. Also, running Ubuntu Studio Installer does not convert your installation to Ubuntu Studio.

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you-nerd (you-nerd) said : 		#2

ah, I just figured it out (sorta).

It's only accessible with the `--user` modifier like so: `systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal`

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Jaggz (jaggz.h) said : 		#3

I have the same error ("pipewire[##]: mod.rt: Can't find org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop. Is xdg-desktop-portal running? mod.rt: found session bus but no portal")

Here xdg-desktop-portal is active(running), but my audio isn't working -- I have pipewire-pulse installed and pavucontrol doesn't show my soundcard.