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@forteller@tutoteket.no  ·  activity timestamp last week

I don't understand how you're supposed to know or remember all the flatpak names of all applications, to run them from terminal!?

What are you supposed to do? Why?

#flatpak #linux

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@fosstastic@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@forteller I agree, in my opinion it's madness to use reverse DNS notation. It's one of its biggest design flaws.

If #Flatpak would use regular DNS notation, it would still have all the benefits of domain names, but autocomplete would at least work as expected.

The TLD is the least important part of an app name and nothing that users should have to remember. "Was it com.github.name or io.github.name or org. or ...?"

My workaround is a systemd timer to create shortcuts: https://pastebin.com/6LMLbvHK

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@rspfau@ecoevo.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@forteller I don't think many folks run their flatpaks from the terminal, so there's no need to memorize the names of all your flatpak apps.

This may not answer all your questions satisfactorily, but there's this which provides some why and a lot of how: https://opensource.com/article/21/5/launch-flatpaks-linux-terminal

Opensource.com

Launch Flatpaks from your Linux terminal

The Flatpak application distribution model is helping developers target Linux in a new and easy way, and it's helping Linux users install more applications without worrying
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@r3vilo@layer8.space replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@forteller I'm not on the PC right now but doesn't it work just to double-TAB and it shows all possible names? Or you just enter a part of the name and then hit TAB? Of course you need "flatpak run" first or just do "flatpak list".

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@incentive@mastodon.circlewithadot.net replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@forteller I use bash aliases to help with that.

Example:

alias appname='flatpak run org.gnome.appname''

Then you just type "appname" and load your app from the terminal like normal

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@forteller@tutoteket.no replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Like now, nothing happens when I double click a video in Nautilus, so I thought ok, let me try and launch it with Showtime trough the terminal to see if there's any error messages… Well, good luck with that! I have to search up Showtime, not in Overview, not in Software, but on flathub.org, to find the Flatpak name that I can copy and paste into the terminal. What? How does it make any sense that this is the way you're supposed to do things? Am I missing something crucial here? #flatpak #gnome

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@aheadofthekrauts@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@forteller flatpak list should show you whats installed.

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@mr_breakfast@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@forteller i usually use `flatpak list` to see the names. i don't see this as an issue necessarily with flatpak either because it's possible someone doesn't know "Files" is actually nautilus. Is there an easy way to find that besides looking it up?

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@dodgybadger@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@forteller iflg. duck så bør du se i ~/.local/share/flatpak (regner med dette er for —user) og /var/lib/flatpak (—system), hvis du finner dem under der så kan du kanskje få lagt dem til i path i hvert fall? Enig i at det høres galt ut at det ikke skal være på plass by default, så mistenker at noe mangler..

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@forteller@tutoteket.no replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

The more likely outcome is that I just don't have the energy to try and debug the issue…

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@i@declin.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@forteller run something like `flatpak run $(flatpak list --app --columns=application | fzf)` then if you want an interactive list to search and auto complete through
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