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No start menu entry for flatpaks #974

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twihno opened this issue Feb 3, 2023 · 3 comments
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No start menu entry for flatpaks #974

twihno opened this issue Feb 3, 2023 · 3 comments
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fixinbound start-menu-integration Windows Start Menu integration

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@twihno
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twihno commented Feb 3, 2023

Version

Windows Version: 10.0.22621.1105

WSL Version

  • WSL 2
  • WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.79.1

Distro Version

Ubuntu 22.04.1

Other Software

Flatpak 1.12.7

Repro Steps

Install any flatpak application

Expected Behavior

Software installed via apt automatically shows up in the Windows start menut, because WSL reads all the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/. Flatpaks should do the same

Actual Behavior

They don't automatically appear and can only be launched via flatpak run

Diagnostic Logs

The desktop files for the flatpak applications are stored in e.g. /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/. Symlinking the individual files into /usr/share/applications/ solves the problem and the applications appear in the windows start menu

@OneBlue OneBlue transferred this issue from microsoft/WSL Feb 7, 2023
@hideyukn88 hideyukn88 added the start-menu-integration Windows Start Menu integration label Feb 7, 2023
@RokeJulianLockhart
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https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/releases/tag/v1.0.50 states that it remediates this.

@monreal
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monreal commented May 21, 2023

I was wondering about this, too. At the moment I have flatpak set up to install to user ($HOME/.var/ ...) instead of system (/var ...) and the code only seems to pick up system installed flatpaks.

@daedsidog
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daedsidog commented Dec 13, 2024

Related #12375

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