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).
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Gear Lever is really cool as well: https://flathub.org/apps/it.mijorus.gearlever
A flatpak for appimages? meta
Looks like Gear Lever is more actively maintained too; thanks for sharing!
I love how gnome apps look so neat and simple. Never knew about this one. Thank you.
keep older versions installed or replace them with the latest release
This functionality does not seem to be present in AppImageLauncher.
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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.
The best launcher you can get for AppImages is to just drop the thing and move to Flatpaks that don’t take 2 seconds to launch apps.
Some apps are only available as appimages.
Neverthrless you should ask the maintainer and work towards flatpaks.
Looking at you Bitwarden.
Appimage and snap. Why no flatpak?
There is a flatpak, but I’m pretty sure it’s a community version.
Appimage and snap. Why no flatpak?
I know why. They’re most likely running into this scenario as well.
The community flatpak of Bitwarden doesn’t have this issue.
Because it only lets you copy to the clipboard, lol.Because it only lets you copy to the clipboard, lol.
Fair enough. :P
As someone who tried to maintain a large application flatpak I would say it’s pain in the ass to work with and things break often. The way it’s configured and how permissions are set needs to be simplified.
Have you tried nix? I wonder if it works better.
Some apps are only available as appimages.
Yeah I know, I was just joking around, still AppImages are annoying.
Wait why is appimage bad
It’s not. These are opinions. Snap on the other hand… THAT is bad.
I can agree with that
From the “universal package formats” that’s the one I’ve had issues with when using it on a distro not specifically mentioned to work, it was supposed to be universal! Though not sure if that’s an issue with whoever packaged the app or anything specific with AppImage. Poor experience anyway.
Also no repo model. I like package manager to deal with shit. We have sorta solutions for that but not quite like snaps and flatpaks.
Also the dependencies stuff is weird. They advice you to think of the oldest (LTS?) distro you think the app will be used on and use deps compatible with that one. Which just seems, I dunno, icky, for lack of better word.
But for a random one-off app, I think it’s fine. I prefer flatpak but it’s fine, I wouldn’t avoid it or anything.
Ah ok. That makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to write out a long reply
Performance… or lack of it. Overhead.
This app is great, I’ve used it for a few months. I used to hate dealing with appimages, now I don’t even think about them.
Never had it work right. 90% of the time it just prompts again or fails to run entirely.
Nope, no thank you… I’m not touching anything other than native, AUR or Flatpak packages. AppImage has only been an inelegant and overall inferior alternative in my experience. The Windows experience, with Linux portability issues. “Find an installer online from some website, have it do whatever the hell it wants, polluting my home folder with random crap and hope it’s not a virus” with essentially zero advantages over Flatpak or even Snap.
Not sure if I’m using the same package or just a similar one. I’ve been annoyed at all the snaps, flatpacks, appimages, etc. for a while now. I just want to update from the repo and not end up with a bunch of slow, broken, poorly integrated alternatives on my computer. Being able to properly manage app images with a tool like this made the alternate distribution formats so much more tolerable. Now when I install something I pray that I’ll find an app image if it’s not in the repos!
