just want to share some notes about my experience with simplex desktop.

go here to download the appimage: https://simplex.chat/downloads/#desktop-app

you can then:

chmod u+x ~/Downloads/simplex-desktop-x86_64.AppImage

assuming you use standard download location.

and run it:

~/Downloads/simplex-desktop-x86_64.AppImage

then magically, back in your terminal (open another session), check your mounts, and you will see a new entry at the end of the list, something like this:

simplex-desktop-x86_64_594d9f9f940c843946e86def816d28d1.AppImage on /tmp/.mount_simpleNlnGNH type fuse.simplex-desktop-x86_64_594d9f9f940c843946e86def816d28d1.AppImage (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)

the important part is the second bit:

/tmp/.mount_simpleNlnGNH

cd to it:

ls

and you'll see this:

AppRun chat.simplex.app.desktop simplex.png usr

you want to copy the .desktop and .png files to your profile:

cp chat.simplex.app.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

cp simplex.png ~/.local/share/icons/

then the last step, to make it all stick:

cd ~/Downloads

cp simplex-desktop-x86_64.AppImage ~/.local/bin/simplex

and voila, you will now have a desktop icon that can launch it, and from terminal `simplex` will also launch it.