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xfceforumorg1220

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Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 26

Why is XFCE cursor settings property called Net

Moving things while editing make me nauseous so I desperately needed to disable the blinking cursor in geany (a nice replacement for kate).  I read the geany documentation and leaned into the filetypes.common file (Tools > Configuration Files), but the final solution was actually in the XFCE settings editor:

    xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/CursorBlink -s false

My question is, why is the XFCE setting under /Net/ and not /Gtk/ or /Xfce/? 

I'm newish to XFCE. Do XFCE settings, need any sort of cleanup or maintenance? Maybe something that removes obsolete channels or properties? I'm on a rolling release distro and overtime that might be helpful.

Is there a way to display XFCE settings that have changed from their defaults? If nothing exists, would the process be something like comparing the files in /etc/xdg/ with those in ~/.config/xfce4?

Thank you.

lastonestanding

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Registered: 2018-11-12

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Re: Why is XFCE cursor settings property called Net

That is how it is defined in the specification.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specif … gsRegistry

xfceforumorg1220

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Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 26

Re: Why is XFCE cursor settings property called Net

Thank you.

freedesktop spec. ok.