Bug#1128230: Permission to use the camera portal denied: "Permission denied"

Marco d'Itri md at linux.it
Sat Aug 8 02:38:13 BST 2026


Control: reassign -1 xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

I suspect that the problem is in xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, because every 
time the consent popup should appear it logs instead:

xdg-desktop-portal-gnome[7963]: Failed to associate portal window with parent window

Is it broken because I am not using Wayland?

This appears to be somehow similar to 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-desktop-portal/+bug/2158647, 
so I managed to make snapshot work by manually enabling it:

   busctl --user call org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore \
     /org/freedesktop/impl/portal/PermissionStore \
     org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore \
     SetPermission sbssas "devices" true "camera" "org.gnome.Snapshot" 1 "yes"

And now it appears in the gnome-control-center list.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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