DISTROBOX-GENERATE-ENTRY(1)

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💖 DISTROBOX-GENERATE-ENTRY 💖

okay bestie, so distrobox generate-entry is a whole command from the Distrobox user manual and it's literally about making your distroboxes ✨visible✨ in the places you actually look at. manual name is DISTROBOX-GENERATE-ENTRY(1), section 1, iykyk 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

distrobox generate-entry — that's the whole vibe, that's the name 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

distrobox-generate-entry will create a desktop icon for one of the available distroboxes. iconic, right? 🦋

and here's the little twist — that entry is then deleted when you remove the matching distrobox. so it cleans up after itself, no ghost icons haunting your app menu 😭🫶

👑 SYNOPSIS 👑

distrobox generate-entry

and then all the lil flags that come with it:

  • --help, -h — show this message. your bestie when you forget stuff 🙈
  • --all, -a — perform for all distroboxes. every single one, no picking favourites 💖
  • --delete, -d — delete the entry. bye bye icon 💀
  • --icon, -i — specify a custom icon [/path/to/icon] (default auto). so you can give it main character energy 🎀
  • --root, -r — perform on rootful distroboxes. the root ones get the treatment too 👑
  • --verbose, -v — show more verbosity. for when you need the tea in full 🍓
  • --version, -V — show version. respect the era you're running ✨

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Generate an entry for a container

distrobox generate-entry my-container-name

one container, one entry, slay 💅

Specify a custom icon for the entry

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

make it your icon, make it cute, make it yours 🌸

Generate an entry for all distroboxes

distrobox generate-entry --all

go big or go home, bestie 🔥

Delete an entry

distrobox generate-entry container-name --delete

and that's the cleanup arc, we love a tidy queen 🧚

ngl the facts here are exactly the facts from the real page — no extra lore invented, no flags skipped, no cap. 💜

okay and one last cute sign-off 🫶 this whole page is from Distrobox, dated Mar 2026, and it lives under the name DISTROBOX-GENERATE-ENTRY(1). go forth and populate that app grid, queen 👑✨

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