xdg.desktopEntries

Desktop Entries allow applications to be shown in your desktop environment's app launcher.

You can define entries for programs without entries or override existing entries.

See https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/recognized-keys.html for more information on options.

Type

attribute set of (submodule)

Default

{ }

Example

{
  firefox = {
    name = "Firefox";
    genericName = "Web Browser";
    exec = "firefox %U";
    terminal = false;
    categories = [ "Network" "WebBrowser" ];
    mimeType = [ "text/html" "text/xml" ];
  };
}

Declared

<home-manager/modules/misc/xdg-desktop-entries.nix>