Flatpaks not showing in App Menu! -Why,

[Member NFFCReds1]

Initially super impressed with AbtiX. Suoer speedy, even on 250GB USB3 pen drive,, and being Debian, also very stable.

Also being Debian,up to date / third party apps not quite enough!

I have installed via CLI around four or five flatoaks. Checkibg un the terninal later all are listed but none are showing in tbe App Menu or the inckuxed OS launcher Why is this? How can I rextify this?

TIA

Barrie
Cornwall UK

[Anonymous]

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wut?

The ” the inckuxed OS launcher” is temporarily closed for cleaning.
Check back in a week or two, eh?

[Member oparun]

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I’ve never used flatpacks, but Antix has a bug of some sorts: sometimes, when you install separate packages (e.g nerolinux4.deb or something from non-official repos) it won’t appear in your menu. You can press “Refresh menu” till the cows come home. So, try to install something else or delete some small program. It usually helps me

[Moderator BobC]

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LOL, You have some serious speeling problems.

Flatpacks are not really a good idea for antiX, BTW, but if you are really sure that is what you want to run, why not add them to your toolbar or menu?

The problem is that the flatpack didn’t install a .desktop file to tell the system where to put it on the menu, how to run it, what icon to use, etc.

If you go into zzzfm, you can do a file search for *.desktop and open one that you see on the menu you want your app added to. It should open in Geany, the programmers editor. Then you need to substitute the values you want for your app, leave the categories alone, and save it to ~/myapp.desktop (or any place you can find it with zzzfm).

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=My App
Comment=My application
Icon=multimedia
Categories=Settings;
Exec=/home/bobc/bin/balenaEtcher-1.5.113-x64.AppImage
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true

Then in zzzfm and Copy it, then Open a Root window, and Paste it into /usr/share/applications

Now run the Toolbar Icon Manager and add it to your toolbar. If you want, instead you could run the Menu Manager to add it to your menu, or find and open it via App Select

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[Member blur13]

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Oparun,

You could try running

desktop-menu --write-out-global

after installing a .deb locally

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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How about using the installed desktop-menu app under Applications>Preference>Add Menu Item?

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[Member PPC]

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I’m notorious for my typos, but the OP is absolutely next level on that annoying problem… Please don’t let your cat walk all over the keyboard while you are typing 🙂

I’ll assume that you are a newbie and do not yet know the “linux lingo”, but, my friend, in both Windows and Linux, the ” the inckuxed OS launcher” is called simply the “menu” (you called it by it’s proper name in the title of you post).
How to get newly installed apps to appear in the menu? When you install .deb packages, the .desktop file that has all the info on the installed application (It’s name, description- that respective localization to other languages, if any exist, it’s icon and in which category it belongs to – games, office, etc) is placed in the /usr/share/applications folder.
When that fails, or you installed an application using another way other than installing a.deb package – like flatpaks, appimages, etc (or you manually create a .desktop file, like BobC mentioned) you have to create a new .desktop file and/or copy the created .desktop to the correct folder and tell antiX to update the menu by running the “desktop-menu –write-out-global” blur13 mentioned, or clicking the “Refresh menu” menu entry (like anticapitalista mentioned while I was typing this very long post). Why do you have to do that? One of the reasons antiX is so light is that it does not waste resources on stuff that you usually don’t need- so you changed something and want to see that change on the menu? antiX is not constantly monitoring the system for any change in /usr/share/applications. You have to tell antiX that you want it to check that folder and update the menu, if a change has happened!

More to the point: I haven’t test flapaks in a while, but a quick read here https://www.pragmaticlinux.com/2021/01/how-to-install-flatpak-applications-from-flathub/ told me this:

When installing a Flatpak, it automatically installs an application launcher as well. This means that you can conveniently start the application by selecting it in your desktop environment’s application menu

So probably, all you have to do is follow blur’s advice and run the above mentioned command to update your menu. If that works, any flatpak that you have installed will show up there (you can search for it by using the app-select application, either for the terminal or from the menu)

P.

Edit: I clarified a bit why a .desktop file may no be created (or be created in the correct folder)… My post below hints at a way to solve the problem that flatpaks may create .desktop files in a folder that antiX does not check, when it’s updating the menu…

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[Member ModdIt]

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Maybe instead off mobbing mokking the otiginal poster take a read, below could well apply.

Some common dyslexia signs and symptoms in teens and adults include:

Difficulty reading, including reading aloud
Slow and labor-intensive reading and writing
Problems spelling
Avoiding activities that involve reading
Mispronouncing names or words, or problems retrieving words
Trouble understanding jokes or expressions that have a meaning not easily understood from the specific words (idioms), such as “piece of cake” meaning “easy”
Spending an unusually long time completing tasks that involve reading or writing
Difficulty summarizing a story
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[Moderator BobC]

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Yes, I make lots of typing goofs too.

These days, maybe you could use a voice to text app. I know I can do that with some successs on my Android phone, but I don’t know if that’s available on Linux.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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flatpaks don’t install their desktop entries under /usr/share/applications so its very possible that the antiX menu generator just doesn’t check the location. system level flatpaks are generally under /var/lib/flatpaks/exports/share/applications.

flatpaks are great on antiX though. no daemon running around unlike with snapd, and launching a flatpak is pretty darn fast. disk space is the tradeoff. they even mostly work when running live.

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[Member PPC]

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Ok, if Dolphin_oracle is correct (I assume that he is always correct) then, to make apps installed via flatpak appear in your menu, try this:

Menu > Terminal
sudo cp /var/lib/flatpaks/exports/share/applications /usr/share/applications && desktop-menu --write-out-global

WARNING: this will overwrite any .desktop that has the same exact name of the apps you installed via flatpak.
TRY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

P.

@Moddit and the OP – Sorry if that came up like I was mocking any disability the OP may have- since I noticed that all the typos were made because the OP pressed the key right next to the right one, I simply assumed that the OP was a lousy typist… If you really have some sort of problem, please be aware that no one here means any harm, we were only kidding because of the large amount of typos – like I said, I’m lousy at typing (I type too fast and tend not to check my post before clicking “Submit”)

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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I have thick skin, broad shoulders, and gigantic fingers. So typos are my tool in trade. If I get kidded. It rolls right off.

Anti’s post pretty sums the solution to this thread.

Another way I guess is running the desktop icons in your preferred window manager and letting the flatpak run from there.

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[Member PPC]

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Problem solved- I tested flatpaks in my system, D.O. was almost right,and my previous suggestion needed a bit of tweaking:
To make installed appimages appear in your menu:
Menu > Terminal >

sudo cp /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/*.desktop /usr/share/applications && desktop-menu --write-out-global

Enter your password, if asked to, and then all installed flatpaks (with a .desktop file) will appear in the menu…

P.

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[Member man_without_clue]

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I cannot get it to work.

I get permission error…

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/usr/share/desktop-menu//.fluxbox/menu-applications’

How come?

[Moderator BobC]

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If I was to guess, I’d say it doesn’t have authority to write the menu. Try this instead:

sudo cp /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/*.desktop /usr/share/applications && sudo desktop-menu --write-out-global

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