Creating Ubuntu Live CD with customized Unity launcher

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I would like to create a custom Ubuntu image based on Natty using Ubuntu Customization Kit. I also want to customize the icons appearing on the Unity Launcher.

I can change the icons on my desktop system with the following command:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites "['firefox.desktop', 'nautilus-home.desktop', 'libreoffice-writer.desktop']"

I tried to run this command from the UCK console while creating the Live CD, but it doesn’t seem to work.

Do you have any ideas how I could solve this?

I don't know a fix for this, but I do know why it didn't work: Running gsettings as root doesn't work and that's how UCK or any other tool like this runs all the commands... — Alin Andrei, Jun 28 '11 at 20:45
Probably related: How to make applications pinned in launcher appear for all users? — ændrük, Apr 30 '12 at 18:57
Toros, have you found a solution? ( Question 156932 may be related) — LovinBuntu, Oct 03 '12 at 21:11
After check, shhac's answer did the trick for me (except i used 10_local-unity-launcher.gschema.override, but com.canonical.Unity.gschema.override will probably also work). — LovinBuntu, Oct 03 '12 at 23:15

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 15 '12 at 18:47

I'm surprised nobody has answered this yet, it is done in a schema so you make an override and re-compile.

echo "[com.canonical.Unity.Launcher]
favorites=['firefox.desktop', 'nautilus-home.desktop', 'libreoffice-writer.desktop']" > /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.canonical.Unity.gschema.override

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

You can probably edit the xml and re-compile for the same result but I've not managed to get this to work yet (trial and error is tedious when you're trying to make live cd/usbs).

This doesn't seem to work for ubuntu 13.10 ... did they change anything regarding this? — harald, Nov 14 '13 at 12:28

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 28 '11 at 19:56

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Have you tried either APTonCD or Remastersys?

answered Jun 28 '11 at 19:56

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