Hello,
it's very simple: you can redefine all_menu_dirs:
put into rc.lua:
menubar.menu_gen.all_menu_dirs = {
"/usr/share/applications",
"/usr/local/share/applications",
"/home/your_user/.local/share/applications"
}
2013/8/20 Ivan Osadchii <[email protected]>:
> Hi All,
>
> I've installed an application with .desktop in ~/.local/share/applications.
> Now I want to launch it using modkey+p but it is not there (awesome already
> restarted).
>
> As far as I could understand awesome's menu_gen.generate() doesn't look into
> that folder. There is such code in lib/menubar/menu_gen.lua.in:
>
> menu_gen.all_menu_dirs = { '/usr/share/applications/',
> '/usr/local/share/applications/' }
>
> And then it simply iterates over all_menu_dirs variable. Is it possible to
> make it also look in ~/.local/share/applications?
>
> I'm not sure if there is a standard regarding where to put desktop entry
> files; this is what gnome people use:
> https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan
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