How the heck do you launch an app on linux?

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A live coding session building an app launcher for a custom Wayland window manager written in Zig. The session covers discovering and parsing XDG desktop files (.desktop format) to enumerate installed applications, implementing iterators to walk XDG_DATA_DIRS, parsing the INI-like desktop entry format, and exploring how to

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