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# Custom app menu entries
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These can be used for either `~/.local/share/applications` or
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`/usr/local/share/applications` which are read by graphical desktop
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environments for their app menus and default applications selections.
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Additionally `~/.config/autostart` or `/etc/xdg/autostart` could symlink here
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so graphical desktop environments started the apps on login.
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- [`a-*.desktop`](#a-desktop)
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- [Refreshing the menus](#refreshing-the-menus)
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## `a-*.desktop`
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These files are companions to my script repos `bash/usr-local-bin/*` belonging
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to `/usr/local/share/applications` and are named so to
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avoid masking package manager. They have clearly different names such as using
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all caps.
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## Refreshing the menus
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```bash
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update-desktop-database -v ~/.local/share/applications
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sudo update-desktop-database -v /usr/local/share/applications
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```
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