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renordw

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From: New Mexico

Registered: 2018-03-04

Posts: 56

(SOLVED) How to add anaconda applications to list of desktop entries?

Currently, I am trying to use Anaconda to deal with some compatibility issues. I am running into a problem that Anaconda managed apps are not added to the Gnome environment of desktop entries.

According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/desktop_entries the list of desktop entries only looks in usr/share/applications or /usr/local/share/applications for applications installed system-wide, or ~/.local/share/applications

However, Anaconda maintains its own list of installed icons with their own desktop entries located at /opt/anaconda/share/applications.

Is there some sort of environmental variable I can modify (analogous to the PATH variable) that will cause the system to look here for desktop entries too?

Last edited by renordw (2018-08-08 22:37:16)

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: (SOLVED) How to add anaconda applications to list of desktop entries?

The first paragraph of the wiki article links to the relevant specifications that describes the environment variables.
You can use XDG_DATA_DIRS and set it like this:

/opt/anaconda/share/applications:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/

I think you could also try a symlink:

ln -s /opt/anaconda/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications/anaconda

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| alias CUTF='LANG=en_XX.UTF-8@POSIX ' | alias ENGLISH='LANG=C.UTF-8 ' |

renordw

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From: New Mexico

Registered: 2018-03-04

Posts: 56

Re: (SOLVED) How to add anaconda applications to list of desktop entries?

The first paragraph of the wiki article links to the relevant specifications that describes the environment variables.
You can use XDG_DATA_DIRS and set it like this:

/opt/anaconda/share/applications:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/

This worked perfectly. I sort of found what you were talking about in the documentation, it is just not crystal clear.

Thanks for helping out!