How to disable Waydroid from generating .desktop launcher files automatically?

[anderson2020]

Is there a supported way to disable or prevent Waydroid from generating waydroid.*.desktop launcher files in ~/.local/share/applications/ on container or session start?"

[L0g0ff]

Same issue here.
Workaround:
for file in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.*.desktop; do sed -i '/^\[Desktop Entry\]/a NoDisplay=true' "$file"; done

Undo:
for file in ~/.local/share/applications/waydroid.*.desktop; do sed -i '/^NoDisplay=true/d' "$file"; done

Because Waydroid.desktop itself uses upper 'W' this is excluded for the loop so you can still start the application itself.

[xiota]

As far as I know, there's no option to disable creating the .desktop files. Have to edit the source directly. (Merely marking them NoDisplay is not acceptable for some users.)

The launchers are created in tools/services/user_manager.py.

Prior to version 1.6.0, disable functions makeDesktopFile() and makeWaydroidDesktopFile().

    def makeDesktopFile(appInfo):
        return 0

    def makeWaydroidDesktopFile(hide):
        return

After version 1.6.0, disable updateDesktopFile().

    def updateDesktopFile(appInfo):
        return

Can also create ~/.local/share/applications/Waydroid.desktop to remove main launcher from Waydroid group and add actions to stop the session and container.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Waydroid (show-full-ui)
Exec=waydroid show-full-ui
Comment=A container-based Android system
Icon=waydroid
StartupWMClass=Waydroid
Categories=Utility;
X-Purism-FormFactor=Workstation;Mobile;
Actions=StopSession;StopContainer;

[Desktop Action StopSession]
Name=Stop Waydroid Session
Exec=waydroid session stop

[Desktop Action StopContainer]
Name=Stop Waydroid Container
Exec=systemctl stop waydroid-container.service

[thePrivacyFanatic]

could this be added as a prop option?
persist.waydroid.generate_launchers or something idk
just make the function return success without doing anything
would be really useful for those using it for adb