As of today there is a rotten issue in Ubuntu 25.04 regarding several features not working due to problems with xdg-desktop-portal. Apps won’t open by clicking, menus not working, download problems, etc.
BUT NOW ALL YOUR PROBLEMS ARE GONE LADIES!
Clone from the official repos, the three problematic packages
- xdg-desktop-portal
- xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
- xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
git clone <repo>
cd <package>
meson build –prefix=/usrninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install
You will probably need to install lotsa dependencies the script will complain, with that I cannot help specifically, but usually you put the name of the complained lib prefixed with lib<name>-dev and sudo apt install <lib package name>;
After doing the above process for all three packages, Just reboot, things will work again.