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-#+title: Running Flatpak Apps with Symlinks
-#+date: 2023-01-21
-#+description: Learn how to run Flatpak apps through menu launchers with symlinks.
-#+filetags: :linux:
-
-* Running Flatpak Apps Should Be Faster
-If you're like me and use Flatpak for those pesky apps that cannot run
-on your system for one reason or another, you likely get annoyed with
-opening a terminal and manually running the Flatpak app with the lengthy
-=flatpak run ...= command.
-
-In the past, I manually created aliases in my =.zshrc= file for certain
-apps. For example, an alias would look like the example below.
-
-This would allow me to run the command fast within the terminal, but it
-wouldn't allow me to run it in an application launcher.
-
-#+begin_src sh
-# ~/.zshrc
-alias librewolf = "flatpak run io.gitlab.librewolf-community"
-#+end_src
-
-However, I now use a much faster and better method that integrates with
-the tiling WMs I use and their application launchers - =dmenu= and
-=bemenu=.
-
-* Creating Symlinks for Flatpak Apps
-Let's use the example of Librewolf below. I can install the application
-like so:
-
-#+begin_src sh
-flatpak install flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-community
-#+end_src
-
-Once installed, I can create a symlink to link the flatpak app to my new
-symlink in a location commonly included in your PATH. In this case, I
-chose =/usr/bin=. You may need to choose a different location if
-=/usr/bin= isn't in your PATH.
-
-#+begin_src sh
-ln -s /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/io.gitlab.librewolf-community /usr/bin/librewolf
-#+end_src
-
-Once complete, you should be able to launch the app using the command
-name you chose above in the symlink (=librewolf=) from a terminal or
-from your application launcher!