Script to toggle the visibility of installed applications

answered 2019-03-13 23:12:21 +0200

hammerhead
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updated 2019-03-13 23:19:13 +0200

I extracted the gist from your script. Thanks ;)

To hide an icon, command this as root:

# Hide the tutorial icon
grep -E '^NoDisplay=true$' /usr/share/applications/sailfish-tutorial.desktop >/dev/null || \
sed -i 's#^\(Icon=.*\)$#\1\nNoDisplay=true#g' /usr/share/applications/sailfish-tutorial.desktop

The grep just avoids inserting the line if it already exists.

To show it again:

# Make the Icon visible again
sed -i '/^NoDisplay=true$/d' /usr/share/applications/sailfish-tutorial.desktop

Note that the icon will appear on the main drawer, not in any sub folder you may have had it in previously.

Bonus: To run a the hidden application from Terminal, command this as normal user:

sed -n 's#^Exec=\(.*\)$#\1#p' /usr/share/applications/sailfish-tutorial.desktop | $SHELL