Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

[Mike Kupfer <kupfer@rawbw.com>]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> > Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 
> > > Wandering a chain of links starting at https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/
> > > leads me to _suspect_ the configuration information I seek is in
> > > /home/richard/.config/dconf/user .
[...]
> Besides, it might be a bad idea to change the file while the desktop
> environment is "running". ISTR that the settings are kept by some
> daemon and the file is "just" the persistence (daemon writes when
> finished and reads at start).

Right, I would definitely not try to edit the dconf/user file.  Options
for making changes are

- MATE Control Center (top-level GUI for MATE configuration)
- dconf-editor (GUI; not as user-friendly as Control Center, but gives
  you direct access to all the settings)
- dconf (command-line)

mike