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Valentin Degenne

Posted on May 5, 2020

i3-dmenu-desktop and desktop applications

#linux #i3 #desktop

Here is three locations your desktop launchers (e.g. i3-dmenu-desktop) might look inside to list desktop applications :

/usr/share/applications
/usr/local/share/applications
~/.local/share/applications

Note that in reality it searches for "applications" folder inside the folders listed under the environment variable $XDG_DATA_DIRS.

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