I've just migrated from Arch Linux to Artix, and am setting up my computer how I like it. I use the Cinnamon desktop.
I've been liking Artix so far, but with one major hiccup: I used the password manager Bitwarden before switching, and am planning to continue using it now. However, the desktop GUI application for Bitwarden is only available on Arch and Artix as a Flatpak (by my knowledge). In order to install it, I have run:
sudo pacman -Syu flatpak
and subsequently:
flatpak install flathub com.bitwarden.desktop
However, Flatpak is misbehaving: I have successfully installed Bitwarden, and can launch it with
flatpak run com.bitwarden.desktop
but it doesn't show up in my application menu, and when open, I cannot pin it to my panel. This makes it "invisible" everywhere except CLI, and for some time, I thought it had failed to install.
From installing other flatpaks, I've discovered that
every flatpak has this issue - which I didn't encounter on Arch. Surely, this isn't intended behavior - did I make a silly mistake?
To be clear, what I
really want is to be able to see and launch the Bitwarden app from my application menu (Super). If there's a way to do that that doesn't involve fixing this issue, I'd be happy to hear it - but it would also be nice to avoid this happening to other Flatpaks I may need to use in the future without having to do a manual workaround for every Flatpak app.
I'd be happy to run commands and give you any info you need to help me.
Hello.
After installing flatpak did you reboot your computer?
Yes - I've restarted my computer several times since then. I'll shut my computer down all the way and turn it back on one more time to be safe.
I did make a silly mistake, after all! I may have restarted my computer since installing Flatpak, but I forgot to do so before installing Bitwarden. New Flatpaks I've downloaded since I restarted are showing up correctly, and when I realized this and reinstalled Bitwarden, it's begun working as expected. I'll mark this as solved now.
Bitwarden is available in arch repositories which you can use within artix too:
Install artix-archlinux-support
That will also give you some text output that you need to add to pacman.conf
Then you run "pacman-key --populate archlinux"
Alternatively you can install it from AUR