I start most applications by opening the "activities overview" with the super key, typing the (start of the) name and hitting enter once the first search result is the correct app. This works fine for apps installed with apt or snap, but I can't figure out how to add custom programs to the search results, e.g. a self-written program that I added to my $PATH.
I am probably using the wrong search terms, since I can't imagine this to be very difficult, but all I've found so far are older suggestions to add a .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications, which does not seem to be applicable to the current version of Gnome anymore.
I'm running the latest Ubuntu 22.04 without any modifications.
