How to reliably determine the name of an application for use in Gnome: Favorite Applications?
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I have ran the following command to setup my Favorite Applications menu:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "[ \
'docker-desktop.desktop', \
'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', \
'firefox-esr.desktop', \
'github-desktop.desktop', \
'gnome-system-monitor.desktop', \
'org.gnome.Terminal.desktop', \
'gnome-tweaks.desktop' \
]"
This is working perfectly (after working out the precise application names).
However I can't work out what the application name is for gnome-control-center
- I have tried all of these:
'gnome-control-center', \
'gnome-control-center.desktop', \
'gnome-controlcenter.desktop', \
'gnome.control-center.desktop', \
'org.gnome-control-center.desktop', \
'org.gnome.control-center.desktop', \
'org.gnome.controlcenter.desktop', \
'/usr/bin/gnome-control-center', \
'/usr/bin/gnome-control-center.desktop', \
None of them work. "Settings" (A.K.A. Control Center) does not show in my list of Favorite Applications.
How can I add it to my menu please? Do I have the application name wrong?
I am able to successfully launch it from the Terminal using both gnome-control-center
and /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
I am also looking for the name of the Text Editor (gnome-text-editor
) application - as I can't work that one out either, to add it to my Favorites.
How can we reliably determine the name of each application please?
I am running Gnome on Debian 12.
**Note:** I actually ended up setting the favorites system-wide for all users via 00-favorite-apps
- but the same is observed either way).

Asked by Danny Beckett
(797 rep)
Apr 5, 2024, 04:28 PM
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