Invoking GNOME “Show applications” from command line

speltriao1 · January 10, 2020, 7:55am

I’m trying to configure my touchpad gestures in Fedora 31 and xdotools doesn’t work properly when I switch between different keyboards layouts. I’ve found in this post how to launch activities overview from command line ( Invoking GNOME Activities overview from command line with the command: dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:‘Main.overview.toggle();’ ), but I would like to do the same thing with the “Applications” grid in GNOME shell.

vits95 · January 10, 2020, 8:14am

Your may want to ask themselves:

Gnome: IRC (It's looks empty, though).

youssefmsourani · February 2, 2020, 4:55am

dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.ShowApplications

vits95 · February 2, 2020, 5:31am

But it is works! Works!

youssefmsourani · February 2, 2020, 5:46am

I was writing from the phone and I was not sure of the correct format of the command .

vits95 · February 2, 2020, 5:49am

I’d tested this. Please, un-delete your comment.

youssefmsourani · February 2, 2020, 5:50am

It can also be used d-feet .
and dbus-monitor to see what happen .

github.com

GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/main/data/dbus-interfaces/org.gnome.Shell.xml

<node>
  <interface name="org.gnome.Shell">
    <method name="Eval">
      <arg type="s" direction="in" name="script"/>
      <arg type="b" direction="out" name="success"/>
      <arg type="s" direction="out" name="result"/>
    </method>
    <method name="FocusSearch"/>
    <method name="ShowOSD">
      <arg type="a{sv}" direction="in" name="params"/>
    </method>
    <method name="ShowMonitorLabels">
      <arg type="a{sv}" direction="in" name="params"/>
    </method>
    <method name="HideMonitorLabels"/>
    <method name="FocusApp">
      <arg type="s" direction="in" name="id"/>
    </method>
    <method name="ShowApplications"/>
    <method name="GrabAccelerator">

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