Show Applications installed on User's own home directory
On ubuntu, when you press Super
key twice or press Super+A
, you see applications installed on host.
But, not all applications are installed via dpkg
or snap
. for example, Postman and Bitwarden doesn’t provide installers instead they provides something like App Image.
I place such programs in ~/Applications
. and I want to run this kind of program conviniently using Super
key like Spotlight search
in Mac.
This can be done by creating .desktop
file in ~/.local/share/applications
Postman.desktop
example
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Postman
Type=Application
Exec=/home/dgkim/Applications/Postman/Postman