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).
AppImageLauncher caused me problems in the past, similar to in this post.
So I switched to appimaged and have never looked back.
After uninstalling AppImageLauncher, I had to make sure that
~/.config/systemd/user/default.target.wants/appimagelauncherd.servicewas also removed!BTW the last release of AppImageLauncher is from 2020!
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.
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.
e.g.
systemctl --user status appimaged.servicesays that the service is enabled for me.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)Oh awesome, yeah I was missing the user tag! Yeah all working now, thank you :)