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.
- flatrun: Run an app by a matching search filter. If multiple matches, then print all matching app ids instead.
- 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. - 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). Requiresfzf.
# 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)
Not really, because the search term can match anywhere in the name. Also it searches in executable name (app id) and the app name, a descriptive text. So its more than a Bash completion would be.