Drag and Drop of attachments doesn't work

[puenka]

On my Ubuntu 22.04 with Signal 5.42.0 from flathub, dragging a file from GNOME Files into a chat does not work. I get the error "Unable to load selected attachment". Using the + symbol to add the attachment for the same file at the same location works.

[bermeitinger-b]

Do you maybe have Wayland?

[puenka]

It doesn't seem to work on either, but on X11 I get the message stated above, on Wayland it simply doesn't do anything.

[lkiesow]

I can confirm this on Fedora 35 Cinnamon which is still using X11

[JYPDWhite]

I also can confirm it's not working Arch Linux with KDE (and X11)

[chamdim]

I had exactly the same issue, dragging and dropping files from mounted (/mnt) HDD.
So, using flatseal, i gave permission to system files (Filesystem -> All system files) and problem solved.
I conclude that maybe you are dealing a permission issue and not a missing feature or bug.
Hope i managed to help you.

[JYPDWhite]

@chamdim that's a cool workaround but I think the flatpak should be provided with this access rights out of the box.

[puenka]

Thanks for the workaround. I then suggest an improved error message (or an error message in the first place) instead of silently failing.

[bermeitinger-b]

As per #153 this is working as intended.

[David-Else]

@bermeitinger-b This is not working in the current version on flathub. I have used flatseal and set:

and I can't drag and drop from anywhere. I used to be able to, not sure when it broke. I am now using Wayland, but Signal is using xwayland. When I put it into Wayland mode it works, but then it constantly crashes so is useless.