How do I make unveil access any folder I want when using Firefox?

[d31n1]

First time poster. Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong place.

I am using OpenBSD -current and I am having some issues with unveil and Firefox.

As you know unveil by default only gives Firefox access to ~/Downloads, but I want to be able to download into other folders. I have managed to give Firefox access to ~/Pictures, ~/Documents and ~/Videos by adding
~/Pictures rwc
~/Documents rwc
~/Videos rwc
to /usr/lib/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/unveil.main, but I can't seem to give access to any other folder in my home folder, such as ~/Dropbox.

I am quite the noob at openbsd and forgive me if this is explained in the unveil man.

[jggimi]

Hello, and welcome!

/usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/firefox recommends not changing the files in /usr/local/, instead making local copies in /etc and editing them there. Otherwise, you will need to revise the files each time you update the package.

Files containing pledge promises and unveil paths and permissions for each type of process are located in /usr/local/lib/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/. Each file can be overridden by copying it to /etc/firefox/ and modifying it.

There are two recent forum threads that discuss this subject, which might help. One. Two.

[d31n1]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

I now copied the files from /usr/local/lib/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/ to /etc/firefox/ and the problem still persist only this time there is some problem with the fonts (picture attached)

One other problem I have with unveil is with making transmission-gtk open magnet links. Adding /usr/local/bin/transmission-gtk rx to unveil.main works, but it opens a new instance of transmission every time even if transmission is already running.

Again, noob at openbsd, so please bare with me

EDIT: apparently transmission-gtk also have the same font issues now.
I recently did sysupgrade -s then pkg_add -u after booting. Something must have gone wrong....
EDIT 2: did a reboot and the fonts are back to normal

[jggimi]

GTK version 3 on OpenBSD uses unveil(2). To my understanding Qt version 5 does not. You might try transmission--qt to see if it the Qt flavor works better for you than transmission--gtk.