distrobox-generate-entry(1)

distrobox-generate-entry1

Usage

distrobox generate-entry

Overview

distrobox-generate-entry will create a desktop icon for one of the available distroboxes. This will be then deleted when you remove the matching distrobox.

Examples

Generate an entry for a container

distrobox generate-entry my-container-name

Specify a custom icon for the entry

distrobox generate-entry my-container-name --icon /path/to/icon.png

Generate an entry for all distroboxes

distrobox generate-entry --all

Delete an entry

distrobox generate-entry container-name --delete

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

From distrobox 1.8.2.5-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.