Open Flatpaks Using Dmenu

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By default dmenu_run does not pick up Flatpak applications. To fix this you can create a symlink for the application in /usr/bin. The binaries of a Flatpak application can be found in /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/.

To create the link you can execute:

sudo ln -s /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/com.microsoft.Teams /usr/bin/teams

After the link has been created you can find it in dmenu