How do I include shortcuts for the gnome setting program and wine apps in dmenu?

Question

I would like to use dmenu as my launcher instead of the Gnome3-overlay that is displayed after hitting the super-key. From the Gnome3-overlay, I am able to launch both apps, gnome settings, and wine programs. In dmenu, I am so far only able to launch apps, and I can't seem to find the gnome settings program or any of my wine apps.

When I tried other launcher, such as synapse, they were able to find both the settings and wine apps, just like with the gnome-overlay. I prefer dmenu because it is the fastest and most aesthetically pleasing launcher I have come across. Is there a way to include shortcuts to the gnome setting program and my wine apps in dmenu?

I am using Antegros Linux with Gnome 3.22 and dmenu 0.1 (specifically, the dmenu2 package from the AUR).

---

Update

For the gnome settings app, I figured out the name is gnome-control-center although it is called "Settings" in the Gnome3-overlay window. Adding the -z flag to dmenu helped by enabling fuzzy matching.

I also found out that the keyboard subsection of the settings menu is launched via gnome-control-center keyboard, which is a little bothersome to type every time since it does not autocomplete.

It seems like dmenu will find everything that I put on my $PATH, but I am not super keen on including all the desktop shortcuts there. Other launchers such as p-menu includes everything on $PATH and all the .desktop files on the system, which is the preferred behavior to me. p-menu does only seem to launch within a terminal, rather than as a popup (the latter being faster for me), so for the time being, I am using albert, which works great. I would still be interested in dmenu or a similar launcher, if they include .desktop-files.

Answer 1

When you install application via Wine it will create desktop files in 2 places:

• ~/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Desktop -- for shortcuts on desktop;
• ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs -- for all shortcuts in main menu.

It probably will be enough to include only first one (where only launchers located, without all these Uninstall/Visit our site/etc shortcuts) to the PATH. And if you don't want to include them for all applications you could setup separate path only for dmenu and launch it like:

$ PATH="$HOME/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Desktop:$PATH" dmenu_run

Answer 2

i3-dmenu-desktop is a perl script uses search for desktop file and pipes it into dmenu to launch desktop files

dmenu is really just a program to dynamically generate menu's, when used as a launch it is in reality just piping the user selection into the shell in order to launch, i kinda abuse that tidbit in dfuse by creating several script around dmenu itself, some of them based off of the dmenu_run shell script