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I need to pin an application in Unity launcher such that it can be seen for all users.

Currently, everything I changed seems to only affect the local user.

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OP are you still looking for an answer? – Ringtail Feb 26 '12 at 3:25
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I have found a lot of information on this since I am also interested in how an admin would be able to do this for many users or how to do it when they first log into a system. haven't found anything that would be a solid answer to this but if I do find anything, will post on here. – ruffEdgz Feb 28 '12 at 18:55

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To make appear applications pinned in launcher for newly created users you can change default settings schema by setting up a new override:

Create file /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/10_local-unity-launcher.gschema.override and insert the following code (.desktop files are stored under /usr/share/applications/):

[com.canonical.Unity.Launcher]
favorites=['pinned-application1.desktop', 'pinned-application2.desktop']

You have to insert all pinned applications. See /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.canonical.Unity.gschema.xml for default values by searching settings schema and key:

        <schema path="/desktop/unity/launcher/" id="com.canonical.Unity.Launcher" gettext-domain="unity">
    <key type="as" name="favorites">
      <default>DEFAULT_VALUES</default>

Then recompile schemas file /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled (which is used by gsettings):

sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
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