The desktop specification requires desktop managers (like Cinnamon) to search the list of directories in `$XDG_DATA_DIRS` for desktop files and use the first found only to add to menus, two applications with the same name cannot show in any desktop spec compliant menu. Geany installs to `/usr/local` by default which will not overwrite the standard LM install in `/usr` but the `$XDG_DATA_DIRS` should have `/usr/local/share` before `/usr/share` in the list, so it should be shown in the menu in, not the LM default. Check with `echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS` and check that `geany.desktop` appears in `/usr/local/share/applications`.
But you need to tell Cinnamon to re-scan those directories after an installation. The standard Geany install (and therefore the script) doesn't do that. This is because each desktop has a different way of doing it and the Geany install is desktop agnostic. But LM installs know about Cinnamon and will re-trigger it. So likely what happened when you installed something else was that Cinnamon was triggered to rescan and it found the install in `/usr/local`. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/3852#issuecomment-2081304298 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <geany/geany/issues/3852/2081304...@github.com>
