On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 16:11 -0400, Barry Fishman wrote: > First thanks for the answers to my previous questions. Everything > worked perfectly. > > 1) In gnome-shell, where is the "favorites" information placed? > > I can stick thing in favorites by selecting that when right clicking > on the icon, but I cannot seem to see where that information gets > stored under my home directory. > > There does not seem to be a way to set the properties of a favorite, and > I need to set up some command line options. I was looking for an > indirect way of doing this. > > Gnome2 had a desktop directory in which I could put *.desktop files, > but gnome shell seems to ignore them, and trying to execute them > just brings gedit up on them. > > I can create an executable script that exec's the application with the > command line switches I want, which I can then move to favorites, but > the resulting icont seem to just launch the original application without > options. gnome-shell stores its favorites in gsettings, as a list of desktop file names: gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps should report something like ['mozilla-firefox.desktop', 'evolution.desktop', 'rhythmbox.desktop', 'shotwell.desktop', 'gnome-terminal.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop', 'xchat.desktop'] To add an item to this list, you can put a desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications, e.g. jhbuild.desktop, and then update the list using gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "['mozilla-firefox.desktop', 'evolution.desktop', 'rhythmbox.desktop', 'shotwell.desktop', 'gnome-terminal.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop', 'xchat.desktop', 'jhbuild.desktop']" -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
