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.

[Zureth-sys]

@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.

I'm so confused. I'm new to linux.
I'm trying to manually configure but when I'm on the step 2, nothing happens in the command terminal. I copy and paste and press enter and it just gives me another space to type

Linux Mint 22 Wilma
64 bit
HIdamari installed through Flatpak v3.5 (software manager?)

This feels weird to not find any videos. I'm not to sure how to troubleshoot this.