On 10/20/2009 08:11 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
On 10/20/2009 08:31 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 17:54 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Does there exist an export/import tool for gconf database so that users
that would want to keep the old/their settings can use to export them
then just simply import it after upgrade/fresh install. That would keep
them happy and you guy's could introduce new changes targeted at new to
linux audience with less hassle..
If such an tool does not exists what's the recommended way of
backing up
system wide/personal gconf databases so we can document that
somewhere..
I recommend gconftool-2 --help-load.
It is unfortunate that these options are not documented in the man page.
Is there a configuration utility to see what configuration settings
are available et al, and maybe configure them?
gconftool-2 is the cli tool. and I guess gconf-editor the gui app ( not
installed by default ) I suppose
I'm by far some *DE expert ( @ the moment ) and there are other
components I will be digging into before any of the *DE but here's
something from my limited knowledge..
To list "keys in trees"
do for example.
gconftool-2 -R /
gconftool-2 -R / | grep nautilus etc..
changes settings
gconftool-2 --set <path> --type boolean 0 or 1 or --type string
"<string>" etc..
Have not received any reply from Matthias if this enough to back up
users settings between upgrades thou..
gconftool-2 --dump / > gconf.backup.xml # To backup everything in the
"Tree"
gconftool-2 --load gconf.backup.xml # To restore after
JBG
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