How to make applications pinned in launcher appear for all users?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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/