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editing .desktop files for Flatpak apps (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml to c/kde@lemmy.ml

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so, I have a couple of Flatpak electron apps that need to be coerced into running under Wayland (Element, Freetube, etc.). they run fine with Xwayland, but I need xlsclients (show Xwayland apps) output to be empty for unrelated reasons. so what I'm doing is:

determining where the .desktop file is, by way of right-clicking app in the Application Launcher, Edit Application, etc.
reconstructing where the file actually is, as I usually get a symlink
copying the file to ~/.local/share/applications/
editing the file to add --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WebRTCPipeWireCapturer --ozone-platform=wayland or whatever its case may be

that's it, Plasma picks up the change almost instantly.

this seems super-convoluted, is there a better way?

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[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

yeah I remote-delete'd all the ones that were there by default and then added flathub without the --user flag, as was the custom at the time, so I guess that's the culprit. no biggie, it works this way too and the couple of apps that need to be cajoled don't need that daily. the question was about the perceived cumbersomeness about fixing, but it turns out it's due to my tinkering.