On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:10:43AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > [adding virt-tools-list to Cc] > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 01:00:01AM -0500, Digimer wrote: > >Hi all, > > > > I've written a tool that configured Virtual Machine Manager, but I've > >got a condition that I am now sure how to handle... > > > > If the user isn't logged in and I configure their > >~/.gconf/apps/virt-manager/*, and then they log in, everything works > >great. However, if they've already logged in and there was no prior > >virt-manager configuration, the custom config is overwritten and lost > >when the user logs out. > > > > Similarly, if VMM is closed, I write the config and then they open VMM > >(again, having logged into gnome where there was no > >~/.gconf/apps/virt-manager), it acts like there is no configuration (it > >tries to auto-connect to localhost and doesn't show the remote machines). > > > > I have no idea how these gconf things work. But I remember there were > two pieces of configuration that needed to be changed, I've done that > through some gconftool GUI, though. Have you tried using gconftool-2 > CLI (or anythign similar) for setting up the configuration instead of > overwriting the config files? It looks like there needs to be > something else done in order for the config to be read and not > overridden by virt-manager, but it doesn't sound like virt-manager > specific thing, but more like as Gtk or GConf specific. ~/.gconf is managed by a daemon which sends config change notifications/... to other processes using GConf when needed, and I highly doubt manual edition of ~/.gconf is supported. So I second Martin that you should first try using gconftool-2 and see if you can still reproduce. GConf has been obsoleted by gsettings/dconf years ago, but that's a different matter ;) Christophe
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