Re: Make .desktop file show up?

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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was figuring out how to install an app, and made the .desktop
> file for it and put it under /usr/share/applications, but it
> didn't show up in the gnome 3 search till much later (maybe
> after logout/login or reboot, I forget when I noticed it
> was there).
>
> Is there some magic incantation to make gnome-shell notice
> new app .desktop entries right away?
>
> Just curious.

Possibly off topic but if I am not installing something by yum I put
the desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications. They show up just
fine in KDE.

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