Installing graphical Ubuntu applications through apx not working

[radiant mural]

Hello, I installed Vanilla OS last night and I have been having a great time learning what the OS has to offer. I am trying to install Signal desktop through an Ubuntu subsystem because the Flatpak seems to have an issue with encryption.

I entered my Ubuntu subsystem with apx and ran the installation process and then exported the application for use on my main machine. The application appears in my apps list but does not launch. I have tried reinstalling and even installing it on the main apx-vso-pico container to no avail. Could this be a problem with Signal specifically or maybe an apx issue? What can I do to get it working?

I am not sure if the Ubuntu package even has encryption or anything, but I would still like to know how I can get programs installed through apx and have them run properly.
Also how do I remove signal-desktop from vso-pico? running sudo apt remove signal-desktop says that the program is not even installed but still shows up in my apps list.

Thank you!

[proper ivy]

Hi!
To get signal working on the apx container, try running sudo apt install libasound2t64 on the apx container containing signal. This seems to be a dependancy issue from signal.
To remove signal from the vso container, try running vso remove signal-desktop

[radiant mural]

Signal works on my Ubuntu apx container now, thank you! vso remove signal-desktop returns that signal-desktop is not installed. apt search signal and going through that shows no indication signal-desktop is there. I even reset my vso instance and they still remain in my apps list. usr/share/applications/ doesn't have any desktop files that seem to line up. When trying to launch the different apps, none work except for the Ubuntu one, but when launched, it says the iconless vso-pico one is running.

[proper ivy]

oh then that may be a bug which causes flatpak apps to show up as container apps. To fix this just remove the .desktop file of 'Signal on vso-pico' from ~/.local/share/applications

[frigid rune]

The issue is when you export any app with apx <subsystem> export -a <appname> or distrobox-export -a <appname> it exports basically anything that contains your query. Flatpaks only get exported cause they're visible to containers due to the fact that they are user-side installs. Technically a distrobox problem but inconveniently Vanilla provokes it especially.

Just delete the shortcuts you don't want and you should be good.