Run Flatpak apps by search filter or through fuzzy finder menu - flatapp

I wrote a simple script in order to help someone in a recent reply from me, to make running Flatpak applications from terminal easier. After that I worked a little bit on it further and now ended up with 2 completely different approaches.

  1. flatrun: Run an app by a matching search filter. If multiple matches, then print all matching app ids instead.
  2. flatapp: Show list of installed apps in an interactive menu. Plus show a description of the app in a preview window. Run the selected application. Requires fzf.
  3. flatsearch: Show search results from repository in an interactive menu. A selected entry will be installed or uninstalled if it exists already (with confirmation from flatpak). Requires fzf.
# Show all matching apps
$ flatrun F
com.github.tchx84.Flatseal
io.freetubeapp.FreeTube

# Run io.freetubeapp.FreeTube
$ flatrun freetube

# Show help for com.obsproject.Studio
$ flatrun obs --help

or flatapp: (requires fzf)

and new flatsearch youtube (requires fzf)

  •  thingsiplay   ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) OP
    2•3 months ago

    I thought about additional echo for confirmation too! I will add it too (give me 2 minutes), but it will output to stderr, so it’s not part of regular output.

    Edit: So I added

    echo "flatpak run" "${app}" "${@}" >&2

    , which as said will output to stderr instead. And I also decided to add flatpak run and the arguments too, but that’s just an “aesthetic” choice.