# Favorite apps for dock apps=( "google-chrome.desktop" "Alacritty.desktop" "code.desktop" "WhatsApp.desktop" "signal-desktop.desktop" "spotify.desktop" "typora.desktop" "Zoom.desktop" "pinta_pinta.desktop" "com.github.xournalpp.xournalpp.desktop" "1password.desktop" "org.gnome.Settings.desktop" "org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop" ) # Array to hold installed favorite apps installed_apps=() # Directory where .desktop files are typically stored desktop_dirs=( "/usr/share/applications" "/usr/local/share/applications" "$HOME/.local/share/applications" ) # Check if a .desktop file exists for each app for app in "${apps[@]}"; do for dir in "${desktop_dirs[@]}"; do if [ -f "$dir/$app" ]; then installed_apps+=("$app") break fi done done # Convert the array to a format suitable for gsettings favorites_list=$(printf "'%s'," "${installed_apps[@]}") favorites_list="[${favorites_list%,}]" # Set the favorite apps gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "$favorites_list"