I just found out about AppImageLauncher, a package handler for AppImages. It organizes them, creates desktop files for you and handles updates and removal.

Integrate AppImages to your application launcher with one click, and manage, update and remove them from there. Double-click AppImages to open them, without having to make them executable first.

Much better than having to create all the desktop files myself, and having to figure out what to put in them for it to work correctly (I’m looking at you, qBittorrent and magnet links).

  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    Good looking out. I installed this and verified it’s working, but does this automatically start at start up? I can’t seem to get systemctl enable to work on it.

    • sputge@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      According to the uninstall instructions here: https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/blob/master/src/appimaged/README.md#initial-setup

      appimaged should create the everything itself in order for auto start to work after launching it once via ~/Applications/appimaged-*.AppImage

      e.g. systemctl --user status appimaged.service says that the service is enabled for me.

      (Maybe you were missing the --user flag?)

      I would follow the installation instructions and if that does not work, the uninstall instructions in reverse to create the service yourself (probably with systemctl --user enable --now appimaged.service)