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Mention how to manually start xdg-desktop-portal in FAQ

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- Keyboard input does not always work in some hosts [#24](https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/issues/24)
- VST3 support incomplete/experimental [#41](https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/issues/41)
- Windows 32bit builds do not work well [#80](https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/issues/80)
- Windows High-DPI issues [#186](https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/issues/186)

### Stable release



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## On BSD/Linux/X11 the menu item "Save As/Export..." does nothing

The save-file dialogs in Cardinal requires a working [xdg-desktop-portal](https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal) DBus implementation from your desktop environment.
Typically your desktop already provides this, if not consider looking for a package to install with "desktop-portal" in the name.
Typically your desktop already provides this, if not consider looking for a package to install with "desktop-portal" in the name.
If you are running a window manager without a "real" desktop environment (like custom X11 or i3 setups),
you will need to manually activate the systemd unit that provides these DBus services, like so:

The open-file dialogs in Cardinal do not have this restriction, with a fallback in case desktop portal is not available.
```
systemctl enable xdg-desktop-portal --user --now
```

Note: The open-file dialogs in Cardinal do not have this restriction, with a fallback in case the desktop portal is not available.

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