Disabling portals for greeter user

[ossimoi]

When regreet starts, it activates xdg-desktop-portal via d-bus. I assume this comes from gtk4.

Sep 24 06:51:43 host dbus-daemon[5532]: [session uid=396 pid=5532 pidfd=5] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop' unit='xdg-desktop-portal.service' requested by ':1.0' (uid=396 pid=5526 comm="regreet")
Sep 24 06:51:43 host systemd[5481]: Starting Portal service...
Sep 24 06:51:43 host dbus-daemon[5532]: [session uid=396 pid=5532 pidfd=5] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Documents' unit='xdg-document-portal.service' requested by ':1.2' (uid=396 pid=5535 comm="/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal")
Sep 24 06:51:43 host systemd[5481]: Starting flatpak document portal service...
Sep 24 06:51:43 host dbus-daemon[5532]: [session uid=396 pid=5532 pidfd=5] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore' unit='xdg-permission-store.service' requested by ':1.3' (uid=396 pid=5540 comm="/usr/libexec/xdg-document-portal")
Sep 24 06:51:43 host systemd[5481]: Starting sandboxed app permission store...

I've tried following env vars:

export GTK_USE_PORTAL=0
export GDK_DEBUG=no-portals
export GIO_USE_PORTALS=0

but none of em do the trick. FWIW export GTK_A11Y=none disables the accessibility bus just fine.

What is the correct way to get rid of portals for greeter user?

[max-ishere]

Why do you want to disable portals and what compositor are you using?

[ossimoi]

Why do you want to disable portals and what compositor are you using?

The greeter user does not need portals for anything and if something goes wrong in starting of a portal, the d-bus activation will delay the startup of greeter by 25 seconds.

This is yet again some forced non-sense from Gnome team.

I use cage for greeter and sway for main user.

[max-ishere]

I don't know how to do this, sorry.

[ossimoi]

Fix has been merged in gtk https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7116

Will test it once new release is out. While GDK_DEBUG can be set in regreet.toml, was wondering if it would make sense to make it default in ReGreet.

[rharish101]

Cool, so I just need to add GDK_DEBUG=no-portals, right?