The gist is in the thread title. I'm on the latest release of Arch, and my application launcher (start menu) does not seem to be looking in "$HOME/.local/share/applications" for desktop entries. I have modified several, and these are not being reflected in my launcher. I have used the bundled KMenuEdit, but I want it to work according to freedesktop.org specs (seems it isn't). I have modified my bash.bashrc file to include "~/.local/share" as a path to XDG_DATA_DIRS (which works when using printenv). I have set a script (conforming to the KDE specs) in "~/.config/plasma-workspace/env" (though, now that I think of it—and I don't if this matters—I didn't make it executable). I have also updated mime cache by running
None of the preceding fixes the issue. In the past (on other distros), I did not have this issue. Any ideas how to solve this?
Code:
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
None of the preceding fixes the issue. In the past (on other distros), I did not have this issue. Any ideas how to solve this?