I use Linux Mint (cinnamon edition) and a while ago I made a desktop shortcut that automatically opened the vault selection menu rather than the most recently used vault:
/opt/Obsidian/obsidian %U://choose-vault?
But a while ago that command stopped working and now it takes me to the most recently used vault anyway. I’m wondering if there’s a more reliable command I could use. I think I installed Obsidian as a .deb from the official site so should I switch to a different install?
Things I have tried
I’ve tried searching this forum and googling what other people have done but so far they all use MacOS or Windows, or they’re asking how to open a specific vault. I’ve also tried using obsidian://choose-vault and obsidian://choose-vault? by itself but that gives me a popup saying “There was an error finding the application.”
It does open the most recently used vault, but I was hoping to make it open the choose vault menu. It’s not 100% necessary lol, it’d just be a bit more convenient if it did, yk?
I forgot to mention I already checked the help document but the example it gave, obsidian://choose-vault, doesn’t work for me. I’m also not sure what to make of the troubleshooting section. I have the obsidian.desktop file and at first its Exec property said /opt/Obsidian/obsidian %U. When I changed it to Exec=executable %u, it said there was an error launching the application. In general it seems like the desktop shortcuts don’t work at all if the file path of the Obsidian program isn’t specified. But it’s possible I’m misreading the help doc — did the troubleshooting instructions intend for me to do something else?
Update: A friend helped me figure it out, it’s supposed to be /opt/Obsidian/obsidian %U obsidian://choose-vault. Not sure how I managed to make it work before but I guess that’s why I didn’t realize how to use the URI before.