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Where to find .desktop files on Ubuntu

Daniel Straßner
September 28, 2020Software engineer at makandra GmbH

.desktop files define launchers for applications installed on your machine. They specify the command that will be executed when launched, icons, titles, etc. There are two directories in which these files are stored:

# basic installation
/usr/share/applications

# installed via snap
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/
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Posted by Daniel Straßner to makandra dev (2020-09-28 10:55)