Simple script for Linux Mint to install <windows key> # shortcuts to items 1-10 in the quicklaunch panel - requires dconf binary (dconf-cli package)

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import subprocess
import os.path
import re
import sys

#Requires dconf tool - available in Mint as dconf-cli
#run with -r argument to remove created shortcuts

home = os.path.expanduser("~")
personal = home + "/.local/share/applications/"
common = "/usr/share/applications/"
cinnamon = home + "/.cinnamon/panel-launchers/"

baseKey = "/org/cinnamon"
quickLaunch = "/panel-launchers"
keybinds = "/keybindings"
customKeybinds = "/custom-keybindings"
shortcutBase = "/custom00000000"
bind = "/binding"
cmd = "/command"
name = "/name"
customKeybindsList = "/custom-list"

executable = "dconf"


def strip(item):
    item = re.sub('[\[\]\"\'\n]', "", item)
    item = re.sub(', ', ",", item)
    item = item.split(",")
    return item

def getExec(file):
    handle = open(file, 'r')
    for line in handle:
        match = re.match('(?:Exec=)(.*)\n', line)
        if match:
            match = re.sub('( )+%[a-zA-Z]( )*$', "", match.group(1))
            return strip(match)
    handle.close()

def addShortcutKey(num, prog):
    subprocess.call([executable, "write", baseKey + keybinds + customKeybinds + shortcutBase + num + name,  " \"ql" + num + "\""])
    subprocess.call([executable, "write", baseKey + keybinds + customKeybinds + shortcutBase + num + cmd,  " \"" + "".join(prog) + "\""])
    subprocess.call([executable, "write", baseKey + keybinds + customKeybinds + shortcutBase + num + bind,  " \"<Super>" + num + "\""])


def addShortcutToIndex(nameList):
    proc = subprocess.Popen([executable, "read", baseKey + keybinds + customKeybindsList], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    end = strip(proc.communicate()[0])
    end = [x for x in end if not x[:-1] == shortcutBase[1:] and not x == '']
    [end.append(name) for name in nameList]
    subprocess.call([executable, "write", baseKey + keybinds + customKeybindsList, " " + str(end)])

def mainAdd():
    proc = subprocess.Popen([executable, "read", baseKey + quickLaunch], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    qList = proc.communicate()[0]
    qList = strip(qList)

    addList = []
    for i, item in enumerate(qList, start=1):
        if i < 11:
            if os.path.isfile(common + item):
                ex = getExec(common + item)
            elif os.path.isfile(personal + item):
                ex = getExec(personal + item)
            elif os.path.isfile(cinnamon + item):
                ex = getExec(cinnamon + item)
            else:
                continue
            addShortcutKey(str(i)[-1], ex)
            addList.append(shortcutBase[1:] + str(i)[-1])
    addShortcutToIndex(addList)

def mainRemove():
    for num in range(0,10):
        subprocess.call([executable, "reset", "-f", baseKey + keybinds + customKeybinds + shortcutBase + str(num) + "/"])
    proc = subprocess.Popen([executable, "read", baseKey + keybinds + customKeybindsList], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    remList = strip(proc.communicate()[0])
    try:
        remList = [x for x in remList if not x[:-1] == shortcutBase[1:] and not x == '']
    except:
        remList = []
    subprocess.call([executable, "write", baseKey + keybinds + customKeybindsList, " " + str(remList)])

if "-r" in sys.argv:
    mainRemove()
else:
    mainAdd()

man, how to use it?