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DESKTOP-FILE-INSTALL(1)				       DESKTOP-FILE-INSTALL(1)

NAME
       desktop-file-install,  desktop-file-edit	 - Installation and edition of
       desktop files

SYNOPSIS
       desktop-file-install [--dir=DIR] [-m  MODE|--mode=MODE]	[--vendor=VEN‐
       DOR]  [--delete-original]  [--rebuild-mime-info-cache]  [EDITOPTION]...
       FILE...

       desktop-file-edit [EDITOPTION]... FILE

DESCRIPTION
       The desktop-file-install program is a tool to install,  and  optionally
       edit,  desktop files. The desktop-file-edit program is a tool to edit a
       desktop file. They are mostly useful for developers and packagers.

       Various options are available to	 edit  the  desktop  files.  The  edit
       options	can  be	 specified more than once and will be processed in the
       same order as the options passed to the program.

       desktop-file-install and desktop-file-edit will always try to  validate
       the  resulting  desktop	file.  A failure to validate might lead to the
       abortion of the installation of the desktop files.

       The list of registered categories and desktop environments  is  defined
       in   the	  Menu	specification:	http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifica‐
       tions/menu-spec.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       --dir=DIR
	      Install desktop files to the DIR directory.

       -m, --mode=MODE
	      Set the permissions of the destination files to MODE.

       --vendor=VENDOR
	      Add a vendor prefix to the desktop files. If a file already  has
	      this  prefix, nothing happens; else, the file will be named VEN‐
	      DOR-FILE. For example: if VENDOR is freedesktop.org and FILE  is
	      specification.desktop,  the result file will be freedesktop.org-
	      specification.desktop.

       --delete-original
	      Delete the source desktop files, leaving only the target	files.
	      Effectively "renames" the desktop files.

       --rebuild-mime-info-cache
	      Rebuild the MIME types application database after installing the
	      desktop files. See  update-desktop-database(1)  for  information
	      about this database.

EDIT OPTIONS
       The following edit options are supported:

       --set-key=KEY
	      Set  the	KEY  key  to  the value passed to the next --set-value
	      option. A matching --set-value option is mandatory.

       --set-value=VALUE
	      Set the key specified with  the  previous	 --set-key  option  to
	      VALUE.  A matching --set-key option is mandatory.

       --set-name=NAME
	      Set  the	name (key Name) to NAME. If a name was already set, it
	      will be overridden.  Localizations  of  the  old	name  will  be
	      removed.

       --copy-name-to-generic-name
	      Copy the value of the Name key to the GenericName key. Note that
	      a desktop file requires a Name key to be valid, so  this	option
	      will always have an effect.

       --set-generic-name=GENERIC-NAME
	      Set  the	generic	 name  (key GenericName) to GENERIC-NAME. If a
	      generic name was already set, it will be	overridden.  Localiza‐
	      tions of the old generic name will be removed.

       --copy-generic-name-to-name
	      Copy  the	 value	of the GenericName key to the Name key, if the
	      GenericName key is present.

       --set-comment=COMMENT
	      Set the comment (key Comment)  to	 COMMENT.  If  a  comment  was
	      already  set,  it	 will  be overridden. Localizations of the old
	      comment will be removed.

       --set-icon=ICON
	      Set the icon (key Icon) to ICON. If an icon was already set,  it
	      will  be	overridden.  Localizations  of	the  old  icon will be
	      removed.

       --add-category=CATEGORY
	      Add CATEGORY to the list of categories (key Categories). If CAT‐
	      EGORY  was  already present in the list, this operation is a no-
	      op. A non-registered category should be prefixed with X-.

       --remove-category=CATEGORY
	      Remove CATEGORY from the list of categories (key Categories). If
	      CATEGORY was not present in the list, this operation is a no-op.

       --add-mime-type=MIME-TYPE
	      Add MIME-TYPE to the list of MIME types (key MimeType). If MIME-
	      TYPE was already present in the list, this operation is a no-op.

       --remove-mime-type=MIME-TYPE
	      Remove MIME-TYPE from the list of MIME types (key MimeType).  If
	      MIME-TYPE	 was  not present in the list, this operation is a no-
	      op.

       --add-only-show-in=ENVIRONMENT
	      Add ENVIRONMENT to the list of desktop  environments  where  the
	      desktop  files should be displayed (key OnlyShowIn). If ENVIRON‐
	      MENT was already present in the list, this operation is a no-op.
	      A non-registered desktop environment should be prefixed with X-.
	      Note that an empty OnlyShowIn key in a desktop file  means  that
	      the desktop file will be displayed in all environments.

       --remove-only-show-in=ENVIRONMENT
	      Remove  ENVIRONMENT  from the list of desktop environments where
	      the desktop files should be displayed (key OnlyShowIn). If ENVI‐
	      RONMENT was not present in the list, this operation is a no-op.

       --add-not-show-in=ENVIRONMENT
	      Add  ENVIRONMENT	to  the list of desktop environments where the
	      desktop files should not be displayed (key NotShowIn). If	 ENVI‐
	      RONMENT was already present in the list, this operation is a no-
	      op. A non-registered desktop environment should be prefixed with
	      X-.  Note	 that  an  empty NotShowIn key in a desktop file means
	      that the desktop file will be displayed in all environments.

       --remove-not-show-in=ENVIRONMENT
	      Remove ENVIRONMENT from the list of desktop  environments	 where
	      the  desktop  files  should not be displayed (key NotShowIn). If
	      ENVIRONMENT was not present in the list, this operation is a no-
	      op.

       --remove-key=KEY
	      Remove the KEY key from the desktop files, if present.

ENVIRONMENT
       Some environment variables change the behavior of desktop-file-install:

       DESKTOP_FILE_VENDOR

	      This  variable  can  be  used  as an alternative to the --vendor
	      option. If the --vendor option is used, this  environment	 vari‐
	      able will be ignored.

       DESKTOP_FILE_INSTALL_DIR

	      This variable can be used as an alternative to the --dir option.
	      If the --dir option is used, this environment variable  will  be
	      ignored.

       RPM_BUILD_ROOT

	      This  variable  is  set when building RPM packages. If the --dir
	      option and the DESKTOP_FILE_INSTALL_DIR environment variable are
	      not  used,  it  will  automatically  be prepended to the default
	      install directory to install  the	 desktop  files	 appropriately
	      when building packages.

BUGS
       If  you	find  bugs  in the desktop-file-install program, please report
       these on https://bugs.freedesktop.org.

SEE ALSO
       desktop-file-validate(1) update-desktop-database(1)

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