Lib.rs

XDG Desktop Portal

XDG Desktop Portal allow Flatpak apps, and other desktop containment frameworks, to interact with the system in a secure and well defined way.

Features

Example

1. Account

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let mut account_portal = portal.account().await.unwrap();
  let req = GetUserInfoReq::default()
    .reason("I want to get user info");
  println!("{:?}", account_portal.get_user_information(req).await);
}

// Ok(AccountUserInformation { id: "dlzht", name: "", image: "file:///home/dlzht/.face" })

2. Background

3. Camera

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let camera_portal = portal.camera().await.unwrap();
  if let Ok(res) = camera_portal.is_camera_present().await && res{
    let fd = camera_portal.open_camera().await.unwrap();
    println!("Opened camera: {:?}", fd);
  }
}

// Opened camera: OwnedFd { fd: 11 }

4. Clipboard

5. Document

6. Launcher

7. Email

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let email_portal = portal.email().await.unwrap();
  let req = ComposeEmailReq::default()
    .subject("Email Subject")
    .body("Hello")
    .addresses(vec!["example@github.com".to_string()]);
  email_portal.compose_email(req).await.unwrap();
}

// mailto:example@github.com?subject=Email Subject&body=Hello

8. File Chooser

open_file

async fn open_file() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let mut file_chooser_portal = portal.file_chooser().await.unwrap();
  let filter1 = FileFilterReq::new("image-jpg".to_string(), vec!["*.jpg".to_string()]);
  let filter2 = FileFilterReq::new("image-png".to_string(), vec!["*.png".to_string()]);
  let filters = vec![filter1.clone(), filter2.clone()];
  let req = OpenFileReq::new()
    .title("This is open file title".to_string())
    .modal(true)
    .multiple(true)
    .filters(filters)
    .current_filter(filter2)
    .accept_label("This is accept label".to_string());
  let res = file_chooser_portal.open_file(req).await;
  println!("{:?}", res);
}

// Ok(OpenFileRes { uris: ["file:///home/dlzht/example.png"], current_filter: Some(FileFilterRes { name: "image-png", matches: ["*.png"] }) })

save_file

async fn save_file() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let mut file_chooser_portal = portal.file_chooser().await.unwrap();
  let filter1 = FileFilterReq::new("image-jpg".to_string(), vec!["*.jpg".to_string()]);
  let filter2 = FileFilterReq::new("image-png".to_string(), vec!["*.png".to_string()]);
  let filters = vec![filter1.clone(), filter2.clone()];
  let req = SaveFileReq::new()
    .title("This is save file title".to_string())
    .modal(true)
    .filters(filters)
    .current_filter(filter2)
    .current_name("FILE_NAME".to_string())
    .accept_label("This is accept label".to_string());
  let res = file_chooser_portal.save_file(req).await;
  println!("{:?}", res);
}

// Ok(SaveFileRes { uris: ["file:///home/dlzht/FILE_NAME.png"], current_filter: Some(FileFilterRes { name: "image-png", matches: ["*.png"] }) })

save_files(nothing happened on my machine KDE/WAYLAND)

async fn save_files() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let mut file_chooser_portal = portal.file_chooser().await.unwrap();
  let path_buf1 = PathBuf::from("image-jpg1");
  let path_buf2 = PathBuf::from("image-jpg2");
  let req = SaveFilesReq::new()
    .title("This is save files title".to_string())
    .modal(true)
    .files(vec![path_buf1.clone(), path_buf2.clone()])
    .accept_label("This is accept label".to_string());
  let res = file_chooser_portal.save_files(req).await;
  println!("{:?}", res);
}

9. File Transfer

10. Game Mode

11. Global Shortcuts

12. Inhibit

13. Input Capture

14. Location

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let location_portal = portal.location().await.unwrap();
  let req = GetLocationsReq::new();
  let mut locations = location_portal.locations(req)
    .await.unwrap();
  while let Some(location) = locations.next().await {
    println!("{:?}", location);
  }
}

15. Memory Monitor

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let mut memory_monitor_portal = portal.memory_monitor().await.unwrap();
  tokio::spawn(async move {
    if let Ok(level) = memory_monitor_portal.low_memory_warning().await {

    }
  });
}

16. Network Monitor

17. Notification

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let notification_portal = portal.notification().await.unwrap();
  let send_req = SendNotificationReq::new()
    .id("1".to_string())
    .title("This is title".to_string())
    .body("this is a high priority notification".to_string())
    .priority(NotificationPriority::High);
  let _ = notification_portal.send_notification(send_req).await;
  tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(1000)).await;
  
  // remove notification which has id "1")
  let remove_req = RemoveNotificationReq::new("1".to_string());
  let _ = notification_portal.remove_notification(remove_req).await;
}

18. OpenURI

19. Power Profile Monitr

20. Print

21. Proxy Resolver

22. Realtime

23. Remote Desktop

24. Request

25. Screencast

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let mut screencast_portal = portal.screencast().await.unwrap();
  let screencast_req = ScreencastReq::new()
    .source_type(SourceType::Window | SourceType::Monitor);
  let res = screencast_portal.screencast(screencast_req).await;
  println!("screencast_portal returned: {:?}", res);
}

// screencast_portal returned: Ok(ScreencastRes { streams: [SelectedSource { node_id: 73, identifier: None, source_type: SourceType(Virtual), size: Some((1920, 1080)), position: None, mapping_id: None }], fd: OwnedFd { fd: 11 } })

26. Screenshot

screenshot

async fn screenshot() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let mut screenshot_portal = portal.screenshot().await.unwrap();
  let req = ScreenshotReq::new()
    .interactive(true)
    .modal(false);
  let res = screenshot_portal.screenshot(req).await;
  println!("{:?}", res);
}
// Ok(ScreenshotRes { uri: "file:///home/dlzht/Screenshot_20250321_121919.png" })

pick_color

async fn pick_color() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let mut screenshot_portal = portal.screenshot().await.unwrap();
  let req = PickColorReq::new();
  let res = screenshot_portal.pick_color(req).await;
  println!("{:?}", res);
}
// Ok(PickColorRes { r: 0.11764705926179886, g: 0.12156862765550613, b: 0.13333334028720856 })

27. Secret

28. Session

29. Settings

30. Trash

#[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
async fn main() {
  let portal = Portal::new().await.unwrap();
  let trash_portal = portal.trash().await.unwrap();
  let file = tokio::fs::File::open("some_file").await.unwrap();
  trash_portal.trash_file(file.as_fd()).await.unwrap();
}

31. Usb

32. Wallpaper