Personal commands/ add Desktop file

huebi · June 11, 2026, 8:53am

If you add a Desktop file, you got to configure xdg-open which program to open.
By default, dropping a Desktop file adds it, but clicking it doesn’t work. Instead, it opens the xdg-open picker.

gitlab.com/endeavouros-filemirror/welcome

Adding-own-commands.md

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**Table of Contents**

- [Personalizing Welcome](#Personalizing-Welcome)
  - [Overview](#Overview)
  - [Command syntax](#Command-syntax)
    - [The **name** element and aligning](#The-name-element-and-aligning)
  - [Example](#Example)
  - [Example (advanced, assumes knowledge about bash language)](#Example-advanced-assumes-knowledge-about-bash-language)
  - [Example: field to run commands in terminal with `RunInTerminal`](#Example-field-to-run-commands-in-terminal-with-RunInTerminal)
  - [Drag & drop items into the configuration file!](#Drag--drop-items-into-the-configuration-file)
  - [New simpler API](#New-simpler-API)
    - [Parameters for `personal_commands_init`](#Parameters-for-personal_commands_init)
    - [Parameters for `personal_commands_add`](#Parameters-for-personal_commands_add)
    - [Example: using the new API](#Example-using-the-new-API)

# Personalizing Welcome

## Overview
You can personalize Welcome by adding new command buttons in the Welcome app. They will appear under tab **Personal Commands**.<br>
To personalize Welcome, add your new commands into file

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reproduce:

Go to /usr/share/applications/ and add eos-apps-info.desktop or use eos-apps-info.desktop from your Desktop.

There are multiple fixes available, the easiest just choosing your program from the xdg picker.
However, I believe that instead it would be preferable to make this work out of the box by fixing https://gitlab.com/endeavouros-filemirror/welcome/blob/main/Adding-own-commands.md

manuel · June 11, 2026, 6:50pm

Thanks for the report!

The new version of welcome 26.6-1 generates dex instead of xdg-open for launching apps via .desktop files.
Note that if you still have xdg-open for opening .desktop files in file ~/.config/welcome-own-cmds.conf, you should change xdg-open to dex for those cases.

Please try the new version and report your findings!

huebi · June 11, 2026, 7:56pm

Thanks for fixing the bug, it works now.

I fixed it by directly modifying the entries in ~/.config/welcome-own-cmds.conf and launching the applications directly.
But it definitely is nice to have that bug fixed for new users.

personal_commands_add "eos-apps-info'" \
                      "EndeavourOS apps info" \
                      "endeavouros-icon" \
                      "Show information about specifically EndeavourOS apps"