I am aware that you can right-click on an application and choose "Add to Favorites". I am trying to add it to the favorites section without using the GUI at all. Everything needs to be done in the terminal or a script.
Anyone have any ideas?
This is not a duplicate of this question. That is for SETTING the favorites, not ADDING to the favorites. When you right click on an application and choose "Add to Favorites", that must run a script somewhere that takes an input of the application name. What I'm asking is, where is that script or how can I replicate it?
Unfortunately, as an end-user you can only "read" and "write" (also reset) the array that dictates the list of favourite apps by using
dconf/gsettings. For example, as mentioned here, you can get the value by runningand write a new value by a suitable
gsettings setcommand. There is no straightforward way to append to the array, you can only overwrite.But you can combine these two and have a custom command. You need to know the name of the
.desktoplauncher associated to the application you want to add to the favourites first. Let's say it isappname.desktop. Then you can run the following to add the application associated toappname.desktopto the favourites:The path for
dconfis:/org/gnome/shell/favorite-apps. For exampleWhich for me produces
So in theory you could use
dconf writeto adjust these values