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How to use the Obsidian AppImage

After downloading the AppImage, and make it executable chmod +x Obsidian-0.8.14.AppImage, you should place it somewhere in your PATH as described here, e.g. in ~/bin/.

To add a desktop entry, you can create an obsidian.desktop file and place it in either /usr/share/applications/ or /usr/local/share/applications/ for applications installed system-wide, or ~/.local/share/applications/. The contents should look something like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Obsidian
Comment=Markdown Notetaking App
GenericName=Text Editor
Type=Application
Exec=/path/to/appimage/Obsidian-0.8.14.AppImage %U
Icon=obsidian
StartupWMClass=obsidian
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/obsidian;

Note that for the Application icon to work, the following line is important:

See also Application Icon missing in Gnome on Linux - #11 by sekhar989 . If all else fails, you can manually download and save the icon to ~/.icons/obsidian.png

In case you prefer a tool that can manage that for you, you can look into AppImageLauncher.

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