App settings and permissions
Singularity gathers the configuration for your apps in one place: the Apps page in settings. It lists the apps on your machine, and opening one shows what it is, what it is allowed to do, and its own settings, all on a single page.
Permissions
Section titled “Permissions”For apps installed as Flatpaks, this is where you see and change what an app can reach, without touching the command line. The page reads the app’s current permissions and lets you toggle them:
- Network access.
- The display and input stack: Wayland, X11, audio, and similar sockets.
- Devices like the GPU and input devices.
- Folders: access to your home, Documents, Downloads, and the other standard places, each shown as read-only or read-write.
Changes are applied as your own user-level overrides, so you are tuning what the app may do without modifying the app itself. It is a single place to manage permissions across all your Flatpak apps.
Settings
Section titled “Settings”Apps can also surface their own settings here. When an app exposes its settings to Singularity, the same toggles, dropdowns, and fields you would find inside the app appear on this page, so you can configure it without opening it. The file manager’s view mode or the terminal’s font, for example, can be set right from the Apps page.
The permissions section shows for Flatpak apps, and the settings section shows for apps that ship the description Singularity needs. Developers can add that to their own app: see Exposing app settings.