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GNOME Making Progress On Full-Featured USB Portal For Flatpaks

Thanks to funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, GNOME developers have been working on greater USB permissions/controls for Flatpak-based Linux applications.

Georges Stavracas has been working on the full-featured USB portal for Flatpaks and provided a status update as part of This Week In GNOME. Flatpak is working toward the infrastructure so apps can request access to devices without opening holes in the sandbox. This Week In GNOME also mentions there are a number of significant performance improvements coming to Mutter for monitors connected directly to secondary GPUs.

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