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[Carl Sturtivant <address@concealed>]

Okay, I was able to fix my problem as follows.

First, I had flatpak install flatseal, which enables flatpak application 
sandbox permissions to be modified on a per application basis.

Second, I ran flatseal and selected TeXmacs and allowed access to all 
user files.

Normality is resumed!
Carl.

On 3/31/26 3:37 PM, Marc Mertens wrote:
> Hello,
>
>         I don't use flatpak [because I compile TexMacs from source]
> but I think your problem is caused by the sandboxing done by flatpak.
> The following links can probally help in setting the permissions for
> the sandbox.
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/iivbs9/how_to_allow_flatpak_applications_access_to_a/
>
> https://linuxconfig.org/understanding-flatpak-security-and-permissions
>
> Alternative ypu can try a appimage from texmacs
>
> https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/linux.en.html
>
> Hopes this helps
>
>
> Marc Mertens
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2026-03-31 at 13:49 -0500, Carl Sturtivant wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Note: I am a computer scientist.
> >
> > I am now regretting moving to TeXmacs 2.1.5 because it fails to see
> > anything in my home directory excepting the Documents folder and its
> > contents.
> >
> > I installed the flatpak version on my Linux desktop. There's no
> > package
> > for my distribution. I had flatpak check the installation. (flatpak
> > repair) I've had no other trouble with flatpak which I use
> > extensively
> > and have for years.
> >
> > When I try to open a TeXmacs document that is not in the tree rooted
> > at
> > ~/Documents by double clicking it fails. For example a file in my
> > home
> > directory itself. (If I try to use the open file dialog such a
> > document
> > in my home directory is not even visible, nor any other directories
> > there excepting ~/Documents.)
> >
> > I get an "Error messages" titled new window with an error line in it
> > that I cannot copy. Here it is, typed in.
> >
> > Warning: Load error for /run/user/1000/doc/7f6c91bf/blah.tm, Success
> >
> > When I go to the extended message in this window it says an exception
> > was thrown followed by a segmentation fault. The exception message
> > says
> > it cannot concretize a tuple, and the description of the tuple is too
> > long for the line in the window even maximized, so the end of the
> > message is lost.
> >
> > How should I proceed?
> >
> > Carl.