dex Command Examples

DesktopEntry Execution is a program to generate and execute DesktopEntry files of the Application type. More information: https://github.com/jceb/dex.

dex --autostart

dex --autostart --search-paths {{path/to/directory1}}:{{path/to/directory2}}:{{path/to/directory3}}:

dex --autostart --environment {{GNOME}}

dex --autostart --dry-run

dex --property {{Name}} {{path/to/file.desktop}}

dex --create {{path/to/file.desktop}}

dex --term {{terminal}} {{path/to/file.desktop}}