Flatpak

So today I’ve been looking at the disk space usage and observed rather peculiar thing; my ~/.var/app/ folder was around 30GB in size. Upon further examination I’ve observed that the disk space usage is generated by the Lbry flatpak application which stored its cache of downloaded videos there. What’s rather weird is that this app was removed from my system like month ago. It turns out that, by default, when you uninstall the app, its configuraiton and cache will stay behind unless you specify --delete-data flag....

Recently I started experimenting with Flatpak. Mainly trying to use it for day-to-day apps like Slack or Skype. Flatpak applications are usually started by launching: flatpak run com.skype.Client You can see that this can quickly get pretty messy. Flatpak does provide the “.desktop” file for each of the application, and if you’re using desktop environment conforming to those standards, application will be listed in your application menu. If you’re on the other hand not using such environment, and like me, use some random WM or just prefer launching applications via command line we can make this a bit easier....