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Asked: 2012-03-02 01:34:25 +0800 CST

Force Unity Dash application to launch with a custom option

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I would like to make a program in the Unity Dash to launch with a custom option, as for example in the terminal it would be

xyz --reconfig

Is this possible?

unity

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  1. Best Answer

    I would recommend the following:

    What you want to do is edit the launcher, or desktop, file. Open up terminal and type:

    cp /usr/share/applications/(NAME OF YOUR PROGRAM).desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

    Then, run:

     gedit ~/.local/share/applications/(NAME OF YOUR PROGRAM).desktop

    The document at the top should say "Exec" somewhere. Add whatever you want to after the program name there, save, and either logout or run unity --replace.

    Edit:

    The command cp /usr/share/appications/(NAME OF YOUR PROGRAM).desktop ~/.local/share/applications/ copies the original file over to a folder that is for only one user. If you want to make it so that a launcher is changed across all users, run sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/(NAME OF YOUR PROGRAM).desktop but make sure you back up the original first.

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