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How to give portal access to a Flatpak app using cli

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After installing and launching the app com.tomjwatson.Emote I get prompted to give it the Background portal access. I know I can toggle access to a portal conveniently via the Flatseal app, but I am looking for a solution that works from a bash script setting up a computer - with as little user GUI action as possible.

When manually giving access via Flatseal (presumably the same from the initial launch prompt), I get this output:

$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote
Table      Object     App                  Permissions Data
background background com.tomjwatson.Emote yes         0x00

How can I give access to that portal via the command line?

After reading the terse documentation (I wish it had some examples), I tried some variations of the flatpak permission-set command:

$ flatpak permission-set background com.tomjwatson.Emote yes
$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote

$ flatpak permission-set background com.tomjwatson.Emote
error: Too few arguments

See 'flatpak permission-set --help'
$ flatpak permission-set background com.tomjwatson.Emote background
$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote

$ flatpak permission-set background com.tomjwatson.Emote background yes
$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote

$ flatpak permission-set background com.tomjwatson.Emote --data=0x00
error: Too few arguments

See 'flatpak permission-set --help'
$ flatpak permission-set background com.tomjwatson.Emote background --data=0x00
$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote

$ flatpak permission-set background com.tomjwatson.Emote background yes --data=0x00
$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote

$ flatpak permission-set background com.tomjwatson.Emote yes --data=0x00
$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote

$ flatpak permission-set background --data=0x00 com.tomjwatson.Emote
error: Too few arguments

See 'flatpak permission-set --help'
$ flatpak permission-set background --data=0x00 com.tomjwatson.Emote yes
$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote

$ flatpak permission-set background --data=0x00 com.tomjwatson.Emote true
$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote

$ flatpak permission-set background --data=0x00 com.tomjwatson.Emote background
$ flatpak permission-show com.tomjwatson.Emote

Note: I expected to get the same flatpak permission-show output as at the top (having used Flatseal) if I hit a working command - I didn't check Flatseal or manually test if the app can run in the background.

Should I instead be using flatpak override?

What am I doing wrong?

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