Show custom entries in j4-dmenu-desktop

[allanabiud]

I want to use j4-dmenu-desktop to list my own custom .desktop files in a particular directory that I created to execute specific commands. Can I achieve this?

[meator]

j4-dmenu-desktop follows the XDG base directory specification (see the ENVIRONMENT section of the manpage).

You can run

export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/my/directory/:$XDG_DATA_DIRS"

somewhere during startup (.zshrc, .bashrc, .profile or somewhere else).