are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the
session is restarted.
I normally don’t change anything without any reason and I can’t remember that I changed anything regarding that. So how could that happenend? And how can I solve that?
The problem persists since a while so restarting etc. does not help.
Good news. I believe I found the source of the problem. The default shell!
I reinstalled manjaro some months ago and decided to try the fish shell.
The desktop entry is some new wording and so I searched again.
I found similar entries askubuntu .com/questions/1013391/launchers-of-snaps-and-flatpak-applications-not-visible with also some pretty old entries…
As I don’t like manipulating some configs and stuff like that… I prefer official recommendations and how it should be (if possible) and not crude hacks that might lead to more problems in the future.
So i decided to simply switch back to the bash shell. And that solved the problem!!
So i entered chsh
entered my password and the new shell path /bin/bash
The chsh -s command didn’t work (“shell not changed”) and wasn’t necessary.
I logged out and in and behold! Spotify (snap) and Vorta (flatpak) can be started from start menu right away!
Of course that is not a pretty satisfying solution for everyone who wants to stay with fish. But maybe someone finds also a solution for that (and post it here!). Probably it will be some hacky solution so I am not interested ^^.
