Hello Gary! Thank you! The configuration you provoded worked for some flatpaks 
I have. However, the error I receive when running Lutris (flatpak run 
net.lutris.Lutris) still complains about dbus. Any idea on how to get Lutris to 
recognize that the flatpak service is using dbus?

Thanks again!



On Monday, June 8th, 2026 at 10:36 AM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi g|ass.Houses,
> 
> You are close, but your modify-services syntax is slightly off.
> 
> You wrote this:
> 
> > (modify-services %desktop-services
> >  (dbus-configuration
> >   (services '(list flatpak)))
> >  (delete gdm-service-type))
> > I tried this and get a "source expression failed to match any pattern" 
> > error. I also tried it without the "'" for the services list.
> 
> It should be this:
> 
> (modify-services %desktop-services
>                  (dbus-root-service-type config =>
>                                          (dbus-configuration
>                                           (services (list flatpak))))
>                  (delete gdm-service-type))
> 
> Good luck,
>   Gary
> 
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