# Display Package Icons Installed by Nix in Launcher

Of course the icon is displayed only if the package ships a `.desktop` file.
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I have tested this on KDE Plasma. It should work on other desktop environments too. It is not implementation specific.

Run the following manually or put it in your `~/.bashrc`
```bash
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=~/.local/share/:~/.nix-profile/share:/usr/share
ln -s ~/.nix-profile/share/applications/*.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
```

Now log out and log back in. Or if you are on KDE Plasma, you can run `kbuildsycoca4` to rebuild the application launcher.