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Asked: 2022-05-03 05:19:05 +0800 CST

Is there a way to change a Dock launcher config?

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I run VS-code and did "Add to favorites" to start it easily.

However, I also need to have the -disable-gpuoption, otherwise VS-code hangs forever.

But doing "Add to favorites" Gnome did only save the Exec path, not the options that were accompanying it.

Is there a way to change the Dock launcher to add this parameter?

In other words, is there a Dock Launchers config available somewhere that allows that kind of change? (didn't see it in dconf)

NB I know it's possible to create a new .desktop file, then "run/start" it, then Add to favorites. My questions aims directly at the Dock config. Thanks

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  1. Question still opened, but this is what I found so far:

    • doing dconf dump / > a
    • then doing a dock operation, like removing a favorite
    • doing dconf dump / > b

    A diff a b tells me that this line

    favorite-apps=['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', ..., 'code.desktop']

    changed.

    So I did a find ~ -name code.desktop and, surprise, nothing. Did the same find but from /...

    and...

    $ ll /usr/share/applications/code.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 513 May  3 03:45 /usr/share/applications/code.desktop*

    It's in /usr/share/applications, of course, where user desktop apps are. The dock simply uses the default .desktop file installed by dpkg.

    I changed the file directly, but one might prefer to copy the .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and make changes here.

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