On 2016-08-15, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: [...] > The best thing to do is to keep a copy of all of your modified .desktop > files somewhere else and you can copy them back in if necessary after an > update. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes The OP could place the modified .desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications. The environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS will determine precedence. -- Liam