There’s always issues here or there trying to incorporate container apps with the desktop, due to their sandboxed nature and subsequent lack of out-of-the-box feature parity with their distro-packaged and supported counterparts.
This is not a post about how awesome Obsidian is, but if you haven’t heard of it, I recommend checking it out: https://obsidian.md/
Rather, it’s a response I just put on github issues for an obsidian CLI controller I have been using. It’s been pretty helpful, but the real gem is Obsidian itself, I just love it, right down to being able to export markmap files and having vim keymap settings.
I just switched to the flatpak version, though, because I noticed the package distributed through Arch’s extra repository was pulling electron on to my system as a dependency (I am trying to cordon nodejs off as much as possible to my adsf environment and away from my main system, because it’s caused the most intra-dependency issues out of any language I’ve dealt with, by far, but that’s too irritating to go into here).
The response ended up being so long, I figured I might as well make a blog post out of it. Here’s the original: https://github.com/Yakitrak/obsidian-cli/issues/20
To follow up, according to Obsidian manual on its URI interface, obs needs 3 things to interface with URI:
.desktopfileExec=line pointing at executable binary%uto be a command-line argument
Separate pre-req: obs name and path should be different values
obs print-default
Default vault name: Obsidian
Default vault path: **$HOME/Documents/Obsidian**The first thing I’d try is giving the included desktop file a lowercase %u
sed -i 's|%U|%u|g' $HOME/.local/share/flatpak/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/x86_64/stable/active/export/share/applications/md.obsidian.Obsidian.desktop
obs open your-vault-name(md.obsidian.Obsidian should open even if completely closed)
If that doesn’t work, try these steps:
Copy the flatpak desktop file to $HOME/.local/share/applications
Name it obsidian.desktop
Point the Exec= line to flatpak executable,
Exec=$HOME/.local/share/flatpak/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/current/active/export/bin/md.obsidian.Obsidian %urun it with a lowercase %u which appears to be an error on both Linux package distributions I’ve tried so far
One might want to examine the wrapper included with the flatpak to see if there’s any other settings they want to incorporate for their setup if they are executing the binary directly. A lot of time these wrappers are outdated and/or unnecessary for their situation, but worth checking out: $HOME/.local/share/flatpak/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/x86_64/stable/active/files/bin/obsidian.sh
#!/bin/sh
set -oue pipefail
EXTRA_ARGS=()
add_argument() {
declare -i "$1"=${!1:-0}
if [[ "${!1}" -eq 1 ]]; then
EXTRA_ARGS+=(${@:2})
fi
}
# Nvidia GPUs may need to disable GPU acceleration:
# flatpak override --user --env=OBSIDIAN_DISABLE_GPU=1 md.obsidian.Obsidian
add_argument OBSIDIAN_DISABLE_GPU --disable-gpu
add_argument OBSIDIAN_ENABLE_AUTOSCROLL --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll
# Wayland support can be optionally enabled like so:
# flatpak override --user --socket=wayland md.obsidian.Obsidian
WL_DISPLAY="${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-"wayland-0"}"
# Some compositors a real path a instead of a symlink for WAYLAND_DISPLAY:
# https://github.com/flathub/md.obsidian.Obsidian/issues/284
if [[ -e "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/${WL_DISPLAY}" || -e "/${WL_DISPLAY}" ]]; then
echo "Debug: Enabling Wayland backend"
EXTRA_ARGS+=(
--ozone-platform-hint=auto
--enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations
)
if [[ -c /dev/nvidia0 ]]; then
echo "Debug: Detecting Nvidia GPU. disabling GPU sandbox."
EXTRA_ARGS+=(
--disable-gpu-sandbox
)
fi
fi
# The cache files created by Electron and Mesa can become incompatible when there's an upgrade to
# either and may cause Obsidian to launch with a blank screen:
# https://github.com/flathub/md.obsidian.Obsidian/issues/214
if [[ "${OBSIDIAN_CLEAN_CACHE}" -eq 1 ]]; then
CACHE_DIRECTORIES=(
"${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/obsidian/GPUCache"
)
for CACHE_DIRECTORY in "${CACHE_DIRECTORIES[@]}"; do
if [[ -d "${CACHE_DIRECTORY}" ]]; then
echo "Deleting cache directory: ${CACHE_DIRECTORY}"
rm -rf "${CACHE_DIRECTORY}"
fi
done
fi
echo "Debug: Will run Obsidian with the following arguments: ${EXTRA_ARGS[@]}"
echo "Debug: Additionally, user gave: $@"
export FLATPAK_ID="${FLATPAK_ID:-md.obsidian.Obsidian}"
export TMPDIR="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/app/${FLATPAK_ID}"
# Discord RPC
for i in {0..9}; do
test -S "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"/"discord-ipc-$i" || ln -sf {app/com.discordapp.Discord,"$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"}/"discord-ipc-$i";
done
zypak-wrapper /app/obsidian $@ ${EXTRA_ARGS[@]}
****Also don’t forget flatseal.
