Tuesday, January 12, 2016

11.10 - How to change default launchers in the unity dashboard?



how can I change the default applications showed when I open unity.
At the moment it's Chromium, OpenShot, Thunderbird and Banshee. I'd like to replace the Banshee starter with a customized icon and command.

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10



Thank you!



For a customized command & icon you'd need to create a custom .desktop & preferably place in a typical applications dir. like ~/.local/share/applications ; /usr/local/share/applications ; /usr/share/applications, (i'd use the 1st one



The Exec= line for your command, the Icon= line for the icon



You could try including in the .desktop a line like this, may help your .desktop show up in System Settings > System Info > Default applicatons > Music




MimeType=audio/x-vorbis+ogg;  


If it doesn't, no matter. Open ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list & in the [Default Applications] section create or edit this line, using the name of your custom.desktop



audio/x-vorbis+ogg=customname.deskktop

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