Chrome browser and Emacs not opening from Gnome Dash

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I recently reinstalled Fedora 42 with Gnome desktop.

After installing Google Chrome browser from Software App, Chrome does not open from Gnome Dash.
System Monitor showed no “chrome” processes.
So I installed google-chrome-stable in the terminal.
Chrome still does not open from Dash, but it opens from the terminal:
$ google-chrome-stable
Then System Monitor shows 12 “chrome*” processes, 6 of them “chrome_crashpad_handler”.
Firefox browser works as expected.

After installing Emacs from Software App, Emacs does not open from Dash.
But Emacs opens from the Gnome Software App.
Here is my failed attempt to open Emacs from the terminal:

    $ emacs
    bash: emacs: command not found...
    Packages providing this file are:
    'emacs'
    'emacs-gtk+x11'
    'emacs-lucid'
    'emacs-nw'

Is there a way to open Chrome and Emacs from Gnome Dash?

2

Are they installed as flatpaks?
flatpak list -app

You may want to double check the type of package (rpm or flatpak) when you install.

3

The Software App shows two Chromes installed:

  • Google Chrome.. Flathub FLATPAK
  • Google Chrome.. [source is not listed]

The Software App Shows one Emacs installed:

  • GNU Emacs.. Fedora Linux FLATPAK

But from the terminal, flatpak did not detect them:

$ flatpak list --app
error: While opening repository /home/wolfv/.local/share/flatpak/repo: opening repo: openat(config): No such file or directory

Thanks for taking a look at this.

4

Can you give the following a try:
mv ~/.local/share/flatpak ~/.local/share/flatpak.old

And then re-run flatpak list --app
and then see if things will run

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5

That fixed it!

$ mv ~/.local/share/flatpak ~/.local/share/flatpak.old
$ flatpak list --app
Name                           Application ID            Version          Branch Origin  Installation
Google Chrome                  com.google.Chrome         137.0.7151.103-1 stable flathub system
SolveSpace                     com.solvespace.SolveSpace 3.1              stable flathub system
GNU Image Manipulation Program org.gimp.GIMP             3.0.4            stable fedora  system
GNU Emacs                      org.gnu.emacs                              stable fedora  system

Now Chrome browser and Emacs launch from Gnome Dash.

Thank you for your help :slight_smile:

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