I don’t use the AppImageLauncher, but here Meta Post - Linux tips, tricks & solutions to common problems are details of where to add the desktop file.
Thank you I’ll try it out!
update: it didn’t fix it for me, URI is still not working
Here’s what my setup looks like, maybe it will be helpful to you.
- I’m running Linux Ubuntu 20.04.
- I’m not using any special AppImage manager.
- I downloaded the Linux AppImage and put it in
/home/craig/Programs/obsidian
- I extracted obsidian.png from the AppImage using --appimage-mount and put it in the same folder as the AppImage. To save you the trouble, I attached obsidian.png at the bottom of this post.
- I created a desktop file obsidian.desktop in
/home/craig/.local/share/applications/
. The contents of the file are below. You’ll need to change the paths to match wherever you put your obsidian.AppImage file. Make sure there are no spaces between e.g.Exec=
and/home/...
Also make sure to keep the%u
– that’s the special sauce. - I think that’s it! With this setup I can start Obsidian from the launcher, and
obsidian://
links work for me in Chrome, Obsidian, and Mermaid. (Example Mermaid block with both kinds of links copied below.)
/home/craig/.local/share/applications/obsidian.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Obsidian
Exec=/home/craig/Programs/obsidian/Obsidian-0.8.15.AppImage %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/craig/Programs/obsidian/obsidian.png
StartupWMClass=obsidian
X-AppImage-Version=0.8.15
Comment=Obsidian
Categories=Office;
MimeType=text/html;x-scheme-handler/obsidian;
Example graph with both kinds of links:
graph LR;
sed --> Obsidian;
click sed "obsidian://vault/Reference/sed";
click Obsidian "obsidian://open?vault=Reference&file=Obsidian";
obsidian.png:
I have basically the same setup, but the step above is not needed imo (Ubuntu 18.04, ymmv)
Thanks for the feedback! What setting do you have for the icon in your obsidian.desktop file?
I saved the icon in ~/.icons/obsidian.png
, but I’m also on i3 using rofi, so I don’t really need the icon . The details of my setup are over here:
thank you @Craig for the detailed description it really helped a lot!
and thanks @argentum as well appreciate the tips for the obsidian.png
Currently it worked, but I’m having some strange behaviour
For instance on mermaid if I click here:
(The following is @Craig’s mermaide code modified for my vault)
graph LR;
sed;
click sed "obsidian://vault/obsidian-personal/sed";
Obsidian does two weird things
If the file already exists
It opens it, but then it does two unecesary annoying extra steps
- It opens a prompt to
if I click on “Remeber my choice” I get this message
This is saying I can change this from “Firefox Preferences”
After I click “Remember Choice” I don’t get that annoying message anymore.
Any ideas on where in Firefox Preferences could I find this?
Firefox Tab Opens everytime
After a mermaid link works correctly
I get a new tab opened everytime in firefox with the following text on the URL:
obsidian://vault/obsidian-personal/test
It shows this everytime I open a link.
I have no idea why this is, but I also notice that if I open the command palette and try “Show In Folder” this opens in firefox as well (with a structure of my files in the browser)
It does this instead of opening this in my linux file manager. In my case I use Thunar
I’m not sure if that’s related, but the new tab opened with every link is my main concern now.
Question about creating vs opening mermaid files
Like I mentioned earlier, if I click on a mermaid link it doesn’t work unless the file already exists, is this normal behaviour?
Thanks again for the great help, really appreciate it
I couldn’t reproduce. I’ve seen the prompt when clicking on an obsidian link from another app (Todoist if that matters, electron-based too), but I don’t have the option there to remember my choice. Maybe it’s a GNOME thing? (My version is 3.28.2).
What are the outputs of xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/obsidian
and xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler
?
Where does Obsidian show up in your ~/.config/mimeapps.list
?
RE: Opening non-existing files is not possible:
Edit: You can check what Firefox is doing in its settings:
Got you this makes sense
this is what the terminal returns:
appimagekit_c2a39878767986b435d0a31ec4395864-Obsidian.desktop
this one doesn’t return anything, not sure why
It shows at the very end of a list of files under this
[Default Applications]
itshows the following
handler/obsidian=appimagekit_662bbdc1ca79f8d4ec9971260b077778-Obsidian.desktop
it’s very strange, I don’t use GNOME. I’m on Manjaro XFCE
The promt to “Open With” is not a real problem since after putting “Remember Choice” it’s not appearing anymore.
The problem that’s still bugging me is the opened tab in Firefox after clicking on an URI obsidian internal link.
Thanks for showing me where to change it in Firefox, happy to know it’s a simple thing
Thanks for the help. When you do command palette > Show in Folder, does it also open in your browser, or does it work in your file manager? I think if I solve this I might fix the blank tab issues.
I think you might be missing something, try this:
Yeah something must be missing, thanks for the help
I have my obsidian.desktop file in
~/.local/share/applications
When I run:
xdg-mime default obsidian.destkop x-scheme-handler/obsidian
What I get is:
xdg-mime: malformed argument 'obsidian.destkop', expected *.desktop Try 'xdg-mime --help' for more information.
desktop → destkop is certainly a “malformed argument” for your terminal…
Woops! That was an inherited typo
No worries, thanks @alltagsverstand for realizing
I corrected it and it worked
xdg-mime default obsidian.desktop x-scheme-handler/obsidian
after trying
update-desktop-database
I get:
The databases in [/usr/local/share/applications, /usr/share/applications] could not be updated.
You need sudo
for that
nice after doing it with sudo it didn’t return an error.
Unfortunatly it didn’t solve the blank tab in firefox, that’s such as strange side effect, not sure what it could be causing it!
Yes, to get URI working with AppImageLauncher wasn’t that hard.
-
Open your
.desktop
file. (Mine was in/home/juris/.local/share/applications/
). -
Find
MimeType=
and edit toMimeType=x-scheme-handler/obsidian;
-
Open and edit
mimeapps.list
(also in/home/juris/.local/share/applications/
) with:[Default Applications] x-scheme-handler/obsidian=appimagekit_8fbd98b6c46b129329185da71d885be3- Obsidian.desktop
-
Be sure that name after
x-scheme-handler/obsidian=
is the same as.desktop
file created by AppImageLauncher inside~/.local/share/applications
Now URI links should work.
thanks for the tips! appreciate that