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bbarnes1

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Registered: 2020-01-05

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DEs w/ Different Applicaitons

I've been using XFCE for a while but am trying out budgie alongside.

I'd like to separate applications by which DE is in use.  For example I don't want to see nautilus in an XFCE session and don't want to see thunar in a budgie session.

I'm not seeing any way to do this.  Is it possible?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: DEs w/ Different Applicaitons

This depends on what you mean by "seeing" an application.  Where are you seeing it?  What do you actually want to change?

It also depends on to what degree each of the DEs allows you to customize menus.  Many of them now primarily automate this looking in places like ~/.local/share/applications.  If both DEs use the same xdg-menu implementation and cannot be customized to use different locations, then you will have a hard time doing this with a single user.  But if you log in as a different user for each DE, this would be very easy as each user would have their own ~/.local/share/applications directory. (edit: see below, apparently this is readily doable with a single user).

Last edited by Trilby (2020-04-09 19:00:01)

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seth

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Re: DEs w/ Different Applicaitons

OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn keys in the desktop service, see https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ … nized-keys

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