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I am trying to have a FlatPak programme (DejaDup) run a "Backup Automatically" - which means it runs in the background. How do I give a FlatPak programme the permissions to run in the background on 18.04?

TIA

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    DejaDup has scheduling capabilities built into the app. You may have to reinstall as a standard app, instead of a FP.
    – heynnema
    Jun 4, 2020 at 20:44
  • What (precisely) did you do? What (precisely) were the results? We cannot guess.
    – waltinator
    Jun 4, 2020 at 23:09
  • Turns out that this FlatPak won't work properly in 18.04, so I switched back to the SNAP version. Guess it's a limitation of the FlatPak alimentation on 18.04.
    – Andor Kiss
    Jun 24, 2020 at 14:08
  • came here to ask the same question for the same app in Ubuntu 22.04. Hopefully I'll have some better results to report
    – Rhahkeem
    Dec 29, 2022 at 15:05

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You may be able to use the Flatseal application to give the program permission to run in the background: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2135719#p2135719

However, it seems that in some environments this is not possible: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup/-/issues/404 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=379456

I have not been able to find a command line option workaround for the grayed out background permission.

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  • Do you know a CLI command to give the background permission if it is not greyed out?
    – Carolus
    Aug 3, 2023 at 7:39
  • no, unfortunately I don't
    – ethan
    Oct 25, 2023 at 21:51

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