Add and remove launcher icons from command line

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I am building an Ubuntu 12.10 VM using Vagrant and Chef, and I want to control which icons initially appear in the launcher.

Specifically I want to clear out all of the initial launcher icons, just leaving the Start icon and Nautilous, then add icons for a couple of applications I'm installing with Chef.

Adding the icons I can probably handle from other posts, but how can I remove existing icons using only the command line?

rusty · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-22T13:18:16.253

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To view the current ones:

gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites

would output something like:

['nautilus-home.desktop', 'chromium-browser.desktop', 'gnome-system-monitor.desktop']

To add new entry, say vlc, add its .desktop file ie. vlc.desktop as:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites "['nautilus-home.desktop', 'chromium-browser.desktop', 'gnome-system-monitor.desktop', 'vlc.desktop']"

(those included in the value string "[... ... ...]" will be show up in the launcher. You can use this to add or remove the launchers of your choice.)

To reset to the default values:

gsettings reset com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites

edited Jan 22 '14 at 13:18

answered Jan 22 '14 at 10:40

rusty

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so could I remove the ones I don't want in the same way? gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites "['nautilus-home.desktop', 'vlc.desktop']" – shanethehat Jan 22 '14 at 11:26
yes you can.. exclude the .desktop files of those you want to remove.. – rusty Jan 22 '14 at 13:14
corrected the typo... to add it's set not get... – rusty Jan 22 '14 at 13:19
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Add and remove launcher icons from command line

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