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One of my Flatpak application stopped working properly, probably after a silent upgrade. I found a fix online that tells me to add a parameter. That fix works. Nonetheless, I like running that app from the GUI as it's much less time consuming than typing its full name in the console.

For a concrete example, my program is VSCodium, installed with Flatpak. The fix is to run it with GPU disabled.

Currently, the GUI runs the command flatpak run com.vscodium.codium with probably a few more parameters, I would like it to run flatpak run com.vscodium.codium --disable-gpu, keeping those extra parameters.

If it were an app installed through the native package manager, I'd modify the .desktop shortcut, but I can't find the ones created by flatpak, if any.

How do I achieve that? (Where are the .desktop files or is there a better way?)

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I had the similar problem and researched the cause of it and it seems there's a cache connected with the GPU that has been corrupted.

I solved it by simply moving the GPUCache folder connected to Code/Codium. On my system (Kubuntu) it's located here and installed Codium with flatpak.

cd ~/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/config/VSCodium

Make sure that Code/codium is not running. I just moved/renamed the GPUCache folder with

mv GPUCache/ GPUCache_old

For me that make Code/Codium start from the GUI-runner.

Edit; to answer your actual question as suggested here, on my system the .desktop file is located at

cd /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.vscodium.codium/current/active/export/share/applications

Open com.vscodium.codium.desktop with nano and your parameter to the line with Exec=.

However this second solution did not solve it for me.

Hope that helps!

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