{"id":992,"date":"2024-07-31T01:02:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T01:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/discover-gear-lever-a-must-have-tool-for-appimage-enthusiasts\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T04:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T04:07:50","slug":"discover-gear-lever-a-must-have-tool-for-appimage-enthusiasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/discover-gear-lever-a-must-have-tool-for-appimage-enthusiasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover &#8216;Gear Lever\u2019: A Must-Have Tool for AppImage Enthusiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong><em>AppImages<\/em> are great: a single runtime containing all of the required dependencies for the app to run, in a double-click binary you can run from anywhere on your system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And therein lies the rub.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>When I download an <em>AppImage<\/em> for software like <em>Audacity<\/em>, <em>Kdenlive<\/em>, etc., it\u2019s to a folder or my desktop. To run it, I have navigate to the folder and double-click on the binary as unless I manually choose to create a <code>.desktop<\/code> launcher it <em>won\u2019t<\/em> appear in any app launcher\/menu.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Solutions exist, of course.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In 2022 I featured a terrific tool to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2022\/10\/appimagelauncher-install-on-ubuntu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">integrate AppImages with Ubuntu<\/a> easily. With that tool installed, the first time you run a new AppImage you can click a button to create a system shortcut for it, and move the runtime to a (safe) directory of your choosing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Great stuff, but that tool hasn\u2019t been updated since 2022 (it still works in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS if you use the DEB from the \u2018continuous release\u2019 section of the the Github, though).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>But there\u2019s a new(ish) GTK4\/libadwaita app for avid AppImage users on Ubuntu to try instead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2>Gear Lever is Essential for AppImage Users<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Lorenzo Paderi\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mijorus.it\/projects\/gearlever\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gear Lever<\/a><\/em> is a simple, straightforward app to streamline managing AppImages on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It can organise and move AppImage runtimes for you; create desktop entries with app metadata and icons to make it easy to launch apps and pin them to the dock; update your AppImages in-place, roll back to older versions, or even run multiple versions side-by-side.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>All very handy, <em>and<\/em> it looks great too!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Features of<em> Gear Lever<\/em> at-a-glance:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Integrate AppImages into your app menu with just one click<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Drag and drop files directly from your file manager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep all the AppImages organized in a custom folder<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Open new AppImages directly with Gear lever<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Manage updates: keep older versions installed or replace them with the latest release<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Save CLI apps with their executable name automatically<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p>Sound good? Try it out \u2013 source code is available on Github (easily compiled using GNOME Builder), or for the low-effort route, fetch the official Flatpak from Flathub.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2022 Get <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/it.mijorus.gearlever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>Gear Lever<\/em> on Flathub<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AppImages are great: a single runtime containing all of the required dependencies for the app to run, in a double-click binary you can run from anywhere on your system. And therein lies the rub. When I download an AppImage for software like Audacity, Kdenlive, etc., it\u2019s to a folder or my desktop. 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