Aruna Sankaranarayananaruna.evam@gmail.comPetr Kovarpknbe@volny.cz2019Customize the default favorites in the Activities overview.Set default favorite applications
Favorite applications are those visible on the GNOME Shell
dash.
You can use dconf to set favorite applications
for one user, or to set the same favorite applications
for all users. For both cases, you must first edit the
dconf profile found in
/etc/dconf/profile.
Set different favorite applications for different users
You can set the default favorite applications for each user by modifying
their user database file found in
~/.config/dconf/user. The following example
snippet uses dconf to set gedit,
Terminal and Files (nautilus) as default
favorites for a user. The example code allows users to modify the list later,
if they wish to do so.
Contents of <file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/profile</file>:
# This line allows the user to change the default favorites later
user-db:user
Contents of <file its:translate="no">~/.config/dconf/user</file>:
# Set gedit, terminal and nautilus as default favorites
[org/gnome/shell]
favorite-apps = ['gedit.desktop', 'gnome-terminal.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop']
You can also lock down the above
settings to prevent users from changing them.
Set the same favorite applications for all users
In order to have the same favorites for all users, you must modify system
database files using dconf keyfiles. The
following steps edit the dconf profile
and then create a keyfile to set default favorite applications for all
users in the local configuration database.
Set the favorite applications
Create the key file
/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-favorite-apps to provide
information for the local database.
Contents of
<file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-favorite-apps</file>:
# Snippet sets gedit, terminal and nautilus as default favorites for all users
[org/gnome/shell]
favorite-apps = ['gedit.desktop', 'gnome-terminal.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop']
To prevent the user from overriding these settings, create the file
/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/favorite-apps with the following
content: