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2026-03-23 00:11:37 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​qubic (she/her)> How does the default XMonad application launcher work? I'm using "XMonad.Prompt.Shell" to be my program launcher. How can I add new "*.desktop" files to it so that I can launch my own programs from the launcher?
2026-03-23 00:35:06 +0100 <geekosaur> that doesn't use desktop files at all; it just throws it at the shell. you would have to extract the `Exec` line from a `*.desktop` file to see how to run it from the shell
2026-03-23 00:37:53 +0100 <geekosaur> I don't see a prompt (or anything else for that matter) to use `xdg-open` to run desktop files. but you could probably run it directly (note that it takes a file to be opened and uses the desktop files to select an application; you don't run desktop files diretcly)
2026-03-23 01:02:57 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​qubic (she/her)> Interesting.
2026-03-23 01:03:09 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​qubic (she/her)> Is there a different application launcher I can be using here?
2026-03-23 01:10:24 +0100 <geekosaur> desktop files are designed to do two things: (1) pick an application based on the kind of file you want to open; (2) build desktop menus
2026-03-23 01:10:46 +0100 <geekosaur> the first can be done with xdg-open from a shell; the second really isn't intended to be used by anything but desktop menus
2026-03-23 01:12:27 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​qubic (she/her)> I see. Makes sense.
2026-03-23 01:22:27 +0100 <geekosaur> also, because the menu stuff can be fairly complex, we'd probably have to link against a desktop environment to do it right
2026-03-23 01:23:35 +0100 <geekosaur> and one of the complications is there can be per-desktop environment information we'd have to figure out how to deal with, especially if using the libraries from a desktop environment that interprets the additional information in ways we might not prefer/someone else would want a different DE's config for
2026-03-23 01:26:20 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​qubic (she/her)> I see... That makes sense.
2026-03-23 01:26:37 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​qubic (she/her)> I'll probably just write a little shell script, dump it in ~ and call it a day.
2026-03-23 01:32:02 +0100 <geekosaur> I personally would write an external program to parse/dump a menu using some desktop environment and feed it to dmenu or maybe build a GridSelect from it
2026-03-23 01:37:59 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​qubic (she/her)> It's just a single think that I want to be able to run.
2026-03-23 01:38:54 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​qubic (she/her)> *thing
2026-03-23 01:45:24 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​jouw> I believe rofi can read .desktop files if you want to use that
2026-03-23 01:46:13 +0100 <haskellbridge> <i​jouw> "rofi -show drun"
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