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ASHPD
ASHPD, acronym of Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is a Rust & zbus wrapper of the XDG portals DBus interfaces. The library aims to provide an easy way to interact with the various portals defined per the specifications. It provides an alternative to the C library https://github.com/flatpak/libportal
Examples
Ask the compositor to pick a color
use ashpd::desktop::screenshot::ColorResponse;
async fn run() -> ashpd::Result<()> {
let color = ColorResponse::builder().build().await?;
println!("({}, {}, {})", color.red(), color.green(), color.blue());
Ok(())
}Start a PipeWire stream from the user’s camera
use ashpd::desktop::camera::Camera;
pub async fn run() -> ashpd::Result<()> {
let camera = Camera::new().await?;
if camera.is_present().await? {
camera.request_access().await?;
let remote_fd = camera.open_pipe_wire_remote().await?;
// pass the remote fd to GStreamer for example
}
Ok(())
}Optional features
| Feature | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| tracing | Record various debug information using the tracing library | No |
| tokio | Enable tokio runtime on zbus dependency | No |
| async-std | Enable the use of the async-std rumtime | Yes |
| gtk3 | Implement From<Color> for gdk3::RGBA Provides WindowIdentifier::from_window that takes a IsA<gdk3::Window> | No |
| gtk3_wayland | Provides WindowIdentifier::from_window that takes a IsA<gdk3::Window> with Wayland backend support only | No |
| gtk3_x11 | Provides WindowIdentifier::from_window that takes a IsA<gdk3::Window> with X11 backend support only | No |
| gtk4 | Implement From<Color> for gdk4::RGBA Provides WindowIdentifier::from_native that takes a IsA<gtk4::Native> | No |
| gtk4_wayland | Provides WindowIdentifier::from_native that takes a IsA<gtk4::Native> with Wayland backend support only | No |
| gtk4_x11 | Provides WindowIdentifier::from_native that takes a IsA<gtk4::Native> with X11 backend support only | No |
| pipewire | Provides ashpd::desktop::camera::pipewire_streams that helps you retrieve the various camera streams associated with the retrieved file descriptor | No |
| raw_handle | Provides WindowIdentifier::from_raw_handle and WindowIdentifier::as_raw_handle for raw-window-handle crate | No |
| wayland | Provides WindowIdentifier::from_wayland for wayland-client crate | No |
Demo
The library comes with a demo built using the GTK 4 Rust bindings and previews most of the portals. It is meant as a test case for the portals (from a distributor perspective) and as a way for the developers to see which portals exists and how to integrate them into their application using ASHPD.
Re-exports
Modules
Interact with the user’s desktop such as taking a screenshot, setting a
background or querying the user’s location.
Interact with the documents store or transfer files across apps.
Spawn commands outside the sandbox or monitor if the running application has
received an update & install it.
Enums
The error type for ashpd.
An error type that describes the various DBus errors.
Most portals interact with the user by showing dialogs.
These dialogs should generally be placed on top of the application window
that triggered them. To arrange this, the compositor needs to know about the
application window. Many portal requests expect a
WindowIdentifier for
this reason.Functions
Check whether the application is running inside a sandbox.