In Ubuntu 17.10, how do I rearrange the application icons in the dock area?
I have tried many ways but failed, such as:
- right-click the icons
- left-click or right-click the empty space in the dock
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In Ubuntu 17.10, how do I rearrange the application icons in the dock area?
I have tried many ways but failed, such as:
Best Answer
Drag & drop! See the animated image below.
The solution above may be outdated or non-working. To rearrange the icons of the applications "pinned" (i.e. added to favourites) to the dock in the Terminal way, do this:
First open Terminal and run
You should get the list of
.desktop
files associated to the applications pinned to the dock in order, something like the following:Suppose you want to move the icon of the application associated to
appname-3.desktop
to the first position. In that case, runand so on.