Setting obsidian-shellcommands plugin on flatpak

Running Obsidian from flatpak comes with its own set of problems. One of them is that Obsidian is ran in sandbox environment - which makes sense when we consider security, but to be frank - it’s annoying when I have to do something non-standard.

I wanted to run this command from obsidian (it updates my git repo):

npx quartz sync --no-pull

but after adding it to there:

I was welcomed with an error that it couldn’t find npx command, which makes sense - I’m using NVM to manage node.

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To make it work I had to make sure that npx was added to Obsidians $PATH variable and obsidian has permissions to this directory.

I used Flatseal to:

1. Give Obsidian permissions to /home/$USER directory - that’s where bin/ of NVM resides
2. Add NVM to $PATH:

I also had to update the script to execute from the git root:

cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" && npx quartz sync --no-pull

Now running Ctrl + P and typing Update page updates the page directly from obsidian.