Some time ago I wrote about Mutate. After a few weeks of using it I decided I need something better. Mutate had a major drawback, it couldn't handle properly .desktop files. That means that some apps were displayed with the wrong or missing icon and Chrome Apps did not work. For example when I tried to open Wunderlist (Chrome App) it will open just another Chrome window. It works well if I use normal app menu.
After trying to fix it myself for a while I gave up. The project is almost abandoned on Github.
This is how I ended up installing Ulauncher which works great with .desktop files. So no more issues with opening Chrome Apps or wrong app icons. It's also fast and reliable.
It was very easy to install following the instruction from the Github repository. The only problem I had was the autostart. By default it adds only the following line to autostart:
ulauncher --hide-window
But in my case that location was not in the $PATH variable, so I had to write the full path to Ulauncher in there.
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