Add app to favorites from command line
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 running
gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps
and write a new value by a suitable gsettings set
command. 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 .desktop
launcher associated to the application you want to add to the favourites first. Let's say it is appname.desktop
. Then you can run the following to add the application associated to appname.desktop
to the favourites:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "$(gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps | sed s/.$//), 'appname.desktop']"