• macniel@feddit.org
    182·
    3 months ago

    Flatpak is nice but I really would like to see a way to run flatpakked application transparently e.g. don’t have to

        flatpak run org.gnome.Lollypop

    and can just run the app via

        Lollypop
    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      3 months ago

      You could make aliases for each program, but I agree, there should be a way to set it up so they resolve automatically.

    • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
      8·
      3 months ago

      Well, Flatpak installs aliases, so as long as your distribution - or yourself - add the $INSTALLATION/exports/bin path to $PATH, then you’ll be able to use the application IDs to launch them.

      And if you want to have the Flatpak available under a different name than it’s ID, you can always symlink the exported bin to whatever name you’d personally prefer.
      I’ve got Blender set up that way myself, with the org.blender.Blender bin symlinked to /usr/local/bin/blender, so that some older applications that expect to be able to simply interop with it are able to.

    • d_k_bo@feddit.org
      5·
      3 months ago

      You can symlink /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.gnome.Lollypop (if you are using a system installation) or ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/org.gnome.Lollypop (if you are using a uset installation) to ~/.local/bin/lollypop and run it as lollypop.

    • Qkall@lemmy.ml
      11·
      3 months ago

      I just run them raw, like just

      org.gnome.Lollypop

      Not ideal, but it’s what I do