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Run Flatpak apps by search filter or through fuzzy finder menu (gist.github.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by thingsiplay@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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). Requires fzf.

# 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)

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I thought about additional echo for confirmation too! I will add it too (give me 2 minutes), but it will output to stderr, so it's not part of regular output.

Edit: So I added

echo "flatpak run" "${app}" "${@}" >&amp;2

, which as said will output to stderr instead. And I also decided to add flatpak run and the arguments too, but that's just an "aesthetic" choice.