Unable to find my videos

[HuckleHubbing]

Hidamari never finds my videos. Opens, but always a blank screen. I click on the folder icon to go to my Hidamari folder and nothing happens.

Looking around, I found that Hidamari seems to want to use my XDG_VIDEOS_DIR, which I don't have set. I don't have any of the xdg user dirs set to anything but $HOME. So I tried to make a Hidamari folder on my home directory. I put some videos in there, but Hidamari still didn't find them.

Ideally, I'd like to just tell it which folder to use instead of it forcing one on me. I tried to change the variable for the folder in the common.py file in the /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/io.github.jeffshee.Hidamari.desktop/share/hidamari/hidamari folder. But any change to that file and Hidamari wouldn't open anymore.

At this point, I can't even open it. I've removed the flatpak install of it, removed every folder and file from /var/lib or in my home directory (~/.var) which was related to Hidamari, after reinstalling it from Flatpak, it no longer opens. Error: error: app/io.githubjeffshee.Hidamari/x86_64/master not installed

Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
64-bit
Gnome 43.9
Wayland
Hidamari installed through Flatpak. v3.5

[jeffshee]

@HuckleHubbing
The XDG_VIDEOS_DIR is typically pointed to $HOME/Videos. These environment variable should have been preconfigured in most major distro if I'm not wrong.

If the XDG_VIDEOS_DIR is not set in your distro, you might need to manually configure it.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

Hidamari doesn't have the feature to change the dir it looks for video, for now. The dir path is hard coded in the code.