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Bash script to extract appimage to desktop
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#!/bin/bash | |
# from https://askubuntu.com/a/1498144 | |
set -e | |
set -o pipefail | |
APPIMAGE_PATH=$1 | |
if [ -z "$APPIMAGE_PATH" ]; then | |
echo "Missing argument: appimage" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
if [ ! -f "$APPIMAGE_PATH" ]; then | |
echo "File not found: $APPIMAGE_PATH" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
TEMP_SQUASHFS_PATH=$(mktemp -d) | |
APPIMAGE_FULLPATH=$(readlink -e "$APPIMAGE_PATH") | |
APPIMAGE_FILENAME=$(basename "$APPIMAGE_PATH") | |
APP_NAME="${APPIMAGE_FILENAME%.*}" | |
DESKTOP_ENTRY_PATH="${HOME}/.local/share/applications/$APP_NAME.desktop" | |
ICON_FOLDER="${HOME}/.local/share/icons" | |
mkdir -p "${ICON_FOLDER}" | |
if [ "$2" == "--remove" ]; then | |
rm -f "$DESKTOP_ENTRY_PATH" | |
find "${ICON_FOLDER}" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "$APP_NAME.*" -delete | |
echo "Removed" | |
exit 0 | |
fi | |
pushd $TEMP_SQUASHFS_PATH | |
"$APPIMAGE_FULLPATH" --appimage-extract > /dev/null | |
cd squashfs-root/ | |
echo "Choose icon: " | |
mapfile -t FILENAMES < <(find -L . -maxdepth 1 -type f \( -iname '*.png' -o -iname '*.svg' \)) | |
i=1 | |
for filename in "${FILENAMES[@]}" | |
do | |
printf " %d) %s\n" "$i" "$filename" | |
i=$((i + 1)) | |
done | |
read -r SELECTED_INDEX | |
ICON_SRC=${FILENAMES[$((SELECTED_INDEX - 1))]} | |
ICON_EXT="${ICON_SRC##*.}" | |
ICON_DST="${ICON_FOLDER}/$APP_NAME.$ICON_EXT" | |
cp "$ICON_SRC" "$ICON_DST" | |
cat <<EOT > "$DESKTOP_ENTRY_PATH" | |
[Desktop Entry] | |
Name=$APP_NAME | |
StartupWMClass=$APP_NAME | |
Exec="$APPIMAGE_FULLPATH" | |
Icon=$ICON_DST | |
Type=Application | |
Terminal=false | |
EOT | |
popd | |
rm -rf $TEMP_SQUASHFS_PATH | |
echo "created" |
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update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
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