Re: changing gconf settings

[Liam O'Reilly <csliam@swansea.ac.uk>]

Hi.

Thanks for your help. I think I understand it now.

So the file etc/skel/.gconf/xxx after setting it up would be an 'initial' gconf 'database' where the only entries would be the ones I set.

Thanks again
Liam

On 9 Aug 2012, at 18:00, Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:

> On 08/09/2012 11:45 AM, Liam O'Reilly wrote:
>> #!/bin/sh
>> gconftool --type bool --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/enable false
>> gconftool --type bool --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/idle_dim_battery false
>> gconftool --type bool --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/idle_dim_ac false
>> gconftool --type bool --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/battery_reduce false
> 
> I guess you would:
> 
> 1. create an etc/skel/.gconf/ in your includes which will be picked up by adduser when live-config
> calls it.
> 
> 2. use gconftool --direct to write to it (requires that you set a config source)
> 
> I can't give you a step by step, as I have not done this myself, and only just figured this much out
> by poking around with it a bit.
> 
> Ben