Gear Lever

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Features

• Integrate AppImages into your app menu with just one click
• Drag and drop files directly from your file manager
• Keep all the AppImages organized in a custom folder
• Open new AppImages directly with Gear lever
• Manage updates: keep older versions installed or replace them with the latest release
• Save CLI apps with their executable name automatically
• Modern and Fresh UI

Download

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Get the bundle from github (no auto-updates)

# From your Downloads folder
flatpak install --bundle --user gearlever.flatpak

Changelog

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Permissions

• --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak: This permission is required in order to open apps and refresh the system menu when a new app is installed; if the user disables this permission manually (eg. with Flatseal), Gear lever should countinue to work normally, except you would not be able to open apps directly.

  Click here to check where and how is used

Preview

Building and running

• Option #1 (suggested)

  Open this project with Gnome Builder and press RUN (the play icon on top)

• Option #2

  # Run the app
  flatpak-builder build/ it.mijorus.gearlever.Devel.json --user --force-clean
  flatpak-builder --run build/ it.mijorus.gearlever.Devel.json gearlever
  
  # Install the app
  flatpak-builder build/ it.mijorus.gearlever.Devel.json --user --install --force-clean

... And AppImageHub / AppImage Store?

At the moment there are no plans to integrate any type of Hub/Store/Repository into Gear Lever. Why? Because the existing ones have a very poor selection of apps, and most of these apps are just unofficial ports