Join Log in
Score:9
Sebastian avatar Ubuntu

Open Gnome Activities and Applications view with .desktop files

dz flag
Sebastian

Is it possible to open Activities and Applications view in Gnome with two .desktop files that I can save in ~/.local/share/applications.

538
2 + 1
vanadium avatar
cn flag
vanadium
Obviously, the benefit here is that then you can pin these as favourites on your visible dock. Would be good to add that to your question. In stock Gnome where you do not have a dock on the desktop, this would not make sense because there, you only can access the icons, also these on the dash, from the overview.
0
Reply
Score:8
avatar Ubuntu
br flag
UnKNOWn

for Activities Overview to call from .desktop file, Create a file like callActivitiesView.desktop or any similar name with below content.

[Desktop Entry]
Type = Application
Name = callActivitiesView
Exec = gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'Main.overview.toggle();'
Icon = emoji-people-symbolic

Note: for Icon field, you can put any absolute path as you wish or any system icon that is with known name.

for Applications view to call from .desktop file, Create a file like callApplicationsView.desktop or any similar name with below content.

[Desktop Entry]
Type = Application
Name = callApplicationsView
Exec = /usr/local/bin/cAV.sh
Icon = emoji-people-symbolic

and create a script file with executable permission (change the path to file as you wish) with the belwo content

#!/bin/bash

status=`gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval 'Main.overview.visible'`

if [ "$status" == "(true, 'false')" ]; then

dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'Main.shellDBusService.ShowApplications()'
else
dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'Main.overview.hide()'
fi

enter image description here

0 + 0
Score:0
avatar Ubuntu
tr flag
Paul Girardin

Alternatively you can open the Application View with Super + A , And Activities View with Super or Super + S

0 + 0
ธงชาติไทย
Elon Musk
I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

mangohost

Post an answer

Most people don’t grasp that asking a lot of questions unlocks learning and improves interpersonal bonding. In Alison’s studies, for example, though people could accurately recall how many questions had been asked in their conversations, they didn’t intuit the link between questions and liking. Across four studies, in which participants were engaged in conversations themselves or read transcripts of others’ conversations, people tended not to realize that question asking would influence—or had influenced—the level of amity between the conversationalists.