[SOLVED] Location of Favorites folder?

[smjure]

May I ask where's the Favorite folder located.
[img]file:///home/oem/Pictures/2023-01-24_20-30.png[/img]
The path is to 'favorites:///' which I cannot use in script for keyboard shortcut, which I'd like to do. If I right click it and open in terminal, it opens in root folder where 'Favorites' are not there. Please, what's the path to the Favorites?

[xenopeek]

That a file is a favorite is stored in its metadata and in a list in user settings.

To start with the latter you can get the list of favorites with command gsettings get org.x.apps.favorites list or dconf read /org/x/apps/favorites/list. The output isn't directly usable in bash but we can get much closer by using jq. First, apt install jq to get it. Then you can run the command like so

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gsettings get org.x.apps.favorites list | tr "'" '"' | jq -rM '.[]'

and that will get you a nicer one file per line output though you still will need some further processing to cut off the ::mimetype part and probably convert the URI to a plain file path. Exercise for the reader. The tr "'" '"' is needed because jq expects double quotes but the gsettings/dconf output has single quotes.

To get the metadate of a file you can run gio info metadata::xapp-favorite /path/to/file but you'd have to run that on each file so this is probably not useful to what you're trying to do.

[smjure]

Sorry regarding the image, here it is:


Thank you, I did not expect to be so complicated just to do a keyboard shortcut to Favorites but will try to do some workaround.

[xenopeek]

What do you want to do with favorites on the keyboard shortcut?

[smjure]

With keyboard shortcut, I'd just like to open the folder Favorites

[xenopeek]

Okay. From your screenshot, this command works to open favorites:
nemo favorites:///

That opens a new Nemo window on favorites. Use nemo --existing-window favorites:/// if you want to open it in a tab in an existing Nemo window.

[smjure]

Thank you kindly