I wrote a simple script in order to help someone in a recent reply from me, to make running Flatpak applications from terminal easier. After that I worked a little bit on it further and now ended up with 2 completely different approaches.
- flatrun: Run an app by a matching search filter. If multiple matches, then print all matching app ids instead.
- flatapp: Show list of installed apps in an interactive menu. Plus show a description of the app in a preview window. Run the selected application. Requires
fzf. - flatsearch: Show search results from repository in an interactive menu. A selected entry will be installed or uninstalled if it exists already (with confirmation from
flatpak). Requiresfzf.
# Show all matching apps
$ flatrun F
com.github.tchx84.Flatseal
io.freetubeapp.FreeTube
# Run io.freetubeapp.FreeTube
$ flatrun freetube
# Show help for com.obsproject.Studio
$ flatrun obs --help
or flatapp: (requires fzf)
and new flatsearch youtube (requires fzf)
Oh I see you also had the flatpak issue where the developer name is used instead of the project name.
To solve this, use
flatpak remove -y --force app && flatpak install app -yas there doesnt seem to be a fix to recreate the Metadatahttps://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5700
I think some smart function is really needed, as many people will have messed up apps. For me it was 8 or more.
Thanks. I just checked it and don’t have the issue with developer name on Flatseal anymore. But good to know how to solve this issue when it happens again.
It doesnt happen again, the metadata parser was broken and metadata is not updated on updates, only on reinstall.
So you dont have this with Flatseal anymore?
Yes, it displays it correctly as
Flatseal com.github.tchx84.FlatsealMaybe I did a reinstall, don’t remember.
Interesting