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Re: live-config 104-gnome-screensaver gconf > dconf



On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Ben Armstrong
<synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
> On 29/02/12 08:14 AM, Philip Newborough wrote:
>> I am almost sure that including an equivalent 'sudo -u
>> "${LIVE_USERNAME}" gsettings set...' command directly from within
>> 104-gnome-screensaver script will produce a bunch of authentication
>> errors,
>
> Are you certain? Seems like it should at least be tried. At least
> 'gsettings list-recursively' is able to view some settings when not run
> within a logged in session (although it produces a boatload of failures
> to do stuff with dbus-launch, warning messages only, though).
>

Not certain, no (I'm rarely certain of anything), but I have not been
able to successfully use the gsettings command to _set_ any values in
this manner :(

>> so I have included a patch that will create an
>> X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled desktop file within the live user's home
>> directory. I am not sure this is the ideal solution, but I thought I
>> would send the patch for review/discussion.
>
> It sure is ugly. :(
>

Agreed, it is not pretty.

 -- Philip


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