From: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com>
To: Christophe Pisteur <christophe.pisteur@fsfe.org>
Cc: help guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: flatpak applications in the gnome applications menu (XDG_DATA_DIRS)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 23:07:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kxG6Iwz7IDNrK7tw3vSYJG5CmHFJOfiWKM5lPR9Xa6IyXxHtFEND89IJwQ26BeoGnoyxvwDP4PVDQKKVqnZ7kxETnrNsjXFUsQuEsywa-vs=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c796a51b3a09eba935cfb36c52457cb1df190089.camel@fsfe.org>
Hi, Christophe,
> I installed Element (1) by flatpak, but applications installed by
> Flatpak do not appear on the gnome desktop applications menu (even
> after reboot).
You have to add some paths to XDG_DATA_DIRS.
I'm using Guix System, and this is what I do:
1. Add the following to .bash_profile file
# MAKE FLATPAK APPLICATION LAUNCHERS AVAILABLE IN GUIX'S GNOME
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$XDG_DATA_DIRS:$HOME/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share"
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share"
Note that I don't know why ".bash_profile" instead of ".profile". I use the former because using the latter never works for me.
2. Restart the GNOME SHELL. You can do this as follows:
2.1 Press Alt + F2
2.2 Enter the letter r
2.3 Press Enter
After this, flatpak applications should be listed along with the applications you install with guix.
About the error, I don't know. I've experienced other problems with flatpaks though. For example, it is common that some flatpak applications can't access the file system, but some can.
Anyways, hope that helps.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-07 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-07 18:59 flatpak applications in the gnome applications menu (XDG_DATA_DIRS) Christophe Pisteur
2021-02-07 19:27 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-02-07 21:07 ` Christophe Pisteur
2021-02-07 23:07 ` Luis Felipe [this message]
2021-02-07 23:53 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira via
2021-02-08 0:10 ` Léo Le Bouter
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2021-02-08 5:52 Christophe Pisteur
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