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Alexandre S
Asked: 2020-01-10 15:00:45 +0800 CST

Invoking GNOME "Show Applications" from command line

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I'm trying to configure my touch-pad gestures in Ubuntu 19.10 and xdotools doesn't work properly when I switch between different keyboards layouts.

I've found in this post how to launch Activities Overview from command line.
Invoking GNOME Activities overview from command line.

But I would like to do the same thing with the "Applications" grid in GNOME shell.

gnome-shell dbus

1 Answers

  1. On gnome based systems, this will launch "Show Applications" by sending a dbus call:

    dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'Main.shellDBusService.ShowApplications()'

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    for toggling..

    create a script with below content and bind the script with any keyboard shortcut you wish.

    #!/bin/bash

status=`gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval 'Main.overview.visible'`

if [ "$status" == "(true, 'false')" ]; then

dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'Main.shellDBusService.ShowApplications()'
else
dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'Main.overview.hide()'
fi

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