How to create shortcut in Application Menu?

[alexander]

Hello,

i installed Authy in AppVM over Snapd, is it possible to create a Shortcut in the Application menu? With discord it has done that automatically.

EDIT: Authy stopped working, i don’t know why. Console throws out that:

[user@personal ~] authy WARNING: cgroup v2 is not fully supported yet, proceeding with partial confinement /snap/authy/5/authy: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [user@personal ~]

can someone tell me how to fix this. It sudddenly stopped working.

[fsflover]

@alexander

is it possible to create a Shortcut in the Application menu?

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[deeplow]

@alexander

is it possible to create a Shortcut in the Application menu?

@fsflover interesting discourse fails to link to the anchor link (#) so I’m quoting it here:

@deeplow

4. Adding shortcut to start menu

Now the application should be installed but it won’t show up in the application’s menu. To add it, open the qube settings for the develop qube (the app should be named <QUBE_NAME>: Qube Settings ). Then open the tab.

You’ll want to add your application’s name to the right column. If you don’t see it, click on Refresh Applications button. That will take a couple of seconds but afterwards it should show up.

Still don’t see it?
If after refreshing your applications, your newly installed application doesn’t show up it might be that your .deb or .rpm didn’t include a shortcut (which sucks). If this is the case read here to try to salvage the situation.

[deeplow]

@alexander

i installed Authy in AppVM over Snapd

Just noticed here another problem. You don’t install things on AppVMs. You should do that on the TemplateVMs on which they are based. Otherwise the applications will disappear when you reboot.

Please read the following docs and it will start to make sense:

Templates | Qubes OS

edit: The above is wrong. See this comment

@alexander

libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is not specific to Qubes. it’s an issue relating to a missing library. Since you’re doing this via snap I don’t know how to fix it, but it is a similar problem to this one. But there the user was installing natively (not though snap) so finding the appropriate library and installing it should have been easier.

[alexander]

Documentation says Installing Applications via Snap is per AppVM. I also installed Discord this way and it works without any problems.
This is i think because of qubes Snapd helper. It also seems to me that it attaches and detaches squash /var/lib/snapd at boot for update(im not sure what system popup exactly says).

[deeplow]

@alexander

Documentation says Installing Applications via Snap is per AppVM.

Oh. You are right!! My bad, then.

@alexander

This is i think because of qubes Snapd helper. It also seems to me that it attaches and detaches squash /var/lib/snapd at boot for update(im not sure what system popup exactly says).

I’m asking myself the same question (but it probably deserves it’s own thread)