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<revision pkgversion="3.30" date="2019-02-22" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Aruna Sankaranarayanan</name>
<email>aruna.evam@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Petr Kovar</name>
<email>pknbe@volny.cz</email>
<years>2019</years>
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<desc>Customize the default favorites in the Activities overview.</desc>
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<title>Set default favorite applications</title>
<p>Favorite applications are those visible on the GNOME Shell
<link href="help:gnome-help/shell-introduction#activities">dash</link>.
You can use <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> 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
<sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> profile found in
<file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/profile/user</file>.</p>
<section id="per-user">
<title>Set different favorite applications for different users</title>
<p>You can set the default favorite applications for each user by modifying
their user database via <cmd>gsettings</cmd>. The following example
command sets <app>Text Editor</app>,
<app>Terminal</app> and <app>Files</app> (<sys>nautilus</sys>) as default
favorites for a user.</p>
<listing>
<title>Contents of <file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/profile/user</file>:</title>
<code its:translate="no">
# <span its:translate="yes">This line allows the user to change the default favorites later</span>
user-db:user
</code>
</listing>
<p>Set Text Editor, Terminal and Files as default favorites:</p>
<screen><output style="prompt"># </output><input>gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "['org.gnome.TextEditor.desktop', 'org.gnome.Terminal.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop']"</input></screen>
<note style="tip">
<p>You can also <link xref="dconf-lockdown">lock down</link> the above
settings to prevent users from changing them.</p>
</note>
</section>
<section id="all-users">
<title>Set the same favorite applications for all users</title>
<p>In order to have the same favorites for all users, you must modify system
database files using <link xref="dconf-keyfiles">dconf keyfiles</link>. The
following steps edit the <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> profile
and then create a keyfile to set default favorite applications for all
users in the <code>local</code> configuration database.</p>
<steps>
<title>Set the favorite applications</title>
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<item>
<p>Create the key file
<file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-favorite-apps</file> to provide
information for the <sys>local</sys> database.</p>
<listing>
<title>Contents of
<file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-favorite-apps</file>:
</title>
<code>
# Snippet sets gedit, terminal and nautilus as default favorites for all users
[org/gnome/shell]
favorite-apps = [<var>'gedit.desktop'</var>, <var>'gnome-terminal.desktop'</var>, <var>'nautilus.desktop'</var>]
</code>
</listing>
</item>
<item>
<p>To prevent the user from overriding these settings, create the file
<file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/favorite-apps</file> with the following
content:</p>
<listing>
<title><file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/favorite-apps</file></title>
<code>
# Lock default favorite applications
/org/gnome/shell/favorite-apps
</code>
</listing>
</item>
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