[BUG] Running Waydroid adds NoDisplay=true to the desktop file.

[siddhpant]

Describe the bug

I was unable to find Waydroid in search (GNOME). After some time saw ~/.local/share/applications/Waydroid.desktop has NoDisplay=true.

I removed it and the icon/launcher showed up. But after the run again it disappeared because NoDisplay=true was again set. Also tried NoDisplay=false to no avail.

Waydroid version

1.4.2

Device

Linux Desktop

Operating System

Debian Testung

Kernel version

6.7.12-amd64

Desktop Environment

GNOME Shell 44.9

GPU

Not applicable

Logs

grep Waydroid.desktop /var/lib/waydroid/*.* has no results.

[cniw]

Remove that line then lock the file

 sed -i '/NoDisplay/d' ~/.local/share/applications/Waydroid.desktop
 sudo chmod -w ~/.local/share/applications/Waydroid.desktop

[siddhpant]

Thanks for the idea (which obviously works!), though still, this should not happen in the first place.

[aleasto]

If you enable multi-windows mode you're not supposed to launch the full android UI anymore, so we hide its launcher.
You should just launch the android application you want from the GNOME applications menu.

[siddhpant]

If you enable multi-windows mode you're not supposed to launch the full android UI anymore, so we hide its launcher. You should just launch the android application you want from the GNOME applications menu.

Thanks! I can confirm waydroid prop get persist.waydroid.multi_windows was set to true.

For anyone stumbling here: Run waydroid prop set persist.waydroid.multi_windows false.

In my case, I had hid the applications from the launcher since the default apps (like calculator) were popping up.