Requesting Espanso

[bmp]

Describe the package

Espanso is a text expansion tool that has been in my workflow for a while. Given the quality of life improvements already available on Universal Blue, this seems like a great addition. Their flatpak addition also seems to have stalled for now.

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[castrojo]

I'd love to try this but ideally we'd have a package for this. Maybe we can toss this in a COPR or something. (Appimage isn't an option I'm willing to support)

[castrojo]

There's a COPR now, if it gets put into Fedora then it'll be real easy: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/espanso-copr-available-for-testing/88921

[bmp]

Oh wow! That was quicker than I thought, I didn't know this could happen on such short turn around times!

[bmp]

Update:

I have installed the COPR as suggested on Discord in the following manner,

1. Downloaded the repo file from https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/eclipseo/espanso/
2. Added it to /etc/yum.repos.d
3. Installed it as rpm-ostree install espanso-wayland.
4. Now I am able to follow the guide to enable espanso-wayland as a systemd service and it launches.

However, I still have the following issues,

1. I am unable to use setcap as indicated,
   sudo setcap "cap_dac_override+p" $(which espanso-wayland) I get the error Failed to set capabilities on file /usr/bin/espanso-wayland' (Read-only file system)
2. A window/process that I am unable to dismiss is created. If I kill it with ps -ef | grep 'espanso-wayland' and then kill, then it doesn't run at all. Here is a video for it.
   Screencast from 2023-09-11 22-54-38.webm

Any tips would be really helpful!

I have reverted back to the distrobox approach that worked earlier for me.

[bmp]

Just checking in to see if any of you have tried this!

[bmp]

@castrojo Can you let me know what help is required? I'd be happy to learn and help if I can.

[castrojo]

Someone needs to PR in the copr and enable the package and then probably fix the issues you ran into.

[m2Giles]

Please see ublue-os/bazzite@ed975d1

For a method of setting capabilities for binaries.

[bmp]

@m2Giles Is this the specific line that you refer to ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/mount --bind /usr/local/bin/.sunshine /usr/bin/sunshine?

[m2Giles]

Please read through the following to understand what is going on.

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/selinux-workarounds-for-binaries-with-the-wrong-label/342?u=m2giles

Instead of SELinux issues, your binary doesn't a capability it needs to function. So you can use the following ExecStart=/usr/sbin/setcap cap_dac_override+p /usr/bin/espanso-wayland)

If espanso-wayland is a symlink you will need to modify it for following the symlink instead.

[bmp]

Sigh, copied the wrong line, I was referring to ExecStart=/usr/sbin/setcap cap_sys_admin+p /usr/bin/sunshine instead of what I had put in.

Thank you for the details, I'll check the links and report back to see if this works.

[GarciaLnk]

Are we still interested in this? Espanso is packaged in Terra's repo with the SELinux fixes and it works flawlessly.

[castrojo]

We're in the process of trimming down our third party repos so not looking to add another.

However @tulilirockz what do you think about tossing this into ublue-os/staging so we can play with it? I think it's worth a shot, there's killer features in there that I think are worth investigating!