I believe I solved this problem before, but I can’t find the solution again. I have some Flatpaks installed on my NixOS system, but they aren’t showing up in the app menu. Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it?

  • paperdEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Does the flatpak stuff show up in your path? Wha’ts yhour nix code for flatpaks looks like?

    • gortbrown@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I honestly just did nix-env -i flatpak then rebooted, so I’m not sure…

      Edit: Did it the configuration.nix way to make sure everything was in the path, and it works now. Thanks!

      • paperdEnglish
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        2 months ago

        nix-env should be avoided, it is bad. I wish it were not in the docs so much. If you need a package for a short time, use nix-shell or nix shell.

        Glad you got it working tho.

      • rutrum@lm.paradisus.dayEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I use a declarative flatpak flake that lets me install flatpaks declaratively. You could use this as well, in case you want to manage the flatpaks in your configuration.