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xfceforumorg1220

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Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 26

dconf gsettings xfconf-query

When I am presented with a question about a setting that affects the XFCE desktop, I sometimes use brute force and then narrow in on a setting.

As far as I know, these commands should produce all settings that affect the XFCE desktop.

gsettings
for s in $( gsettings list-schemas ); do gsettings list-recursively $s ; done

xfconf-query
for channel in $( xfconf-query --list | tail --lines=+2 | sort ); do   printf -- '\n\e[1;36m%s\e[m\n' "${channel}";   xfconf-query --list --verbose --channel "${channel}"; done

dconf
dconf dump /

I don't quite have a handle on dconf yet.  Does anyone know why the dconf command does not show everything that the gsettings command shows?

I thought looping through gsettings recursively would produce the same output as dumping dconf.

Thank you.

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: dconf gsettings xfconf-query

You can just:

gsettings list-recursively | grep -Fi "your_string_here"

list-recursively already lists everything when not given arguments.

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xfceforumorg1220

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Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 26

Re: dconf gsettings xfconf-query

Ok.

I do find I need to use both gsetting and xfconf-query.

But the big head-scratcher is why doesn't dconf dump produce the same keys and values as gsettings?  Isn't gsettings just accessing the dconf db?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: dconf gsettings xfconf-query

Perhaps this might help with the explanation.

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