I have installed Bitwarden through its AppImage, and added a .desktop file to run it easily (and also to use a themed icon). Unfortunately, each time an update comes out, I need to manually update the file since it points directly to the older version

is there anything that can be done about this? I know of AppImageLauncher but I don’t like it, I’d rather install the Flatpak for Bitwarden if that’s the only solution. Another possible approach would be to have a script continuously running in the background, checking if the file Exec points to still exists… but that imho is not very clean.
Do you have any insight?

  • everett
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    6 months ago

    Happy to hear if there are glaring problems with this approach, but if you can assume files named with version numbers, you can use a script to always launch the newest…

    #!/bin/bash
cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x $(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -rV | head -n 1)
./$(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -rV | head -n 1)

    Or you could change the script to sort by file modified date and launch the newest.

    edit: Discovered an issue with version numbering like .10 and learned about the sort -V switch that fixes it!