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dconf - Simple tool for manipulating a dconf database

Commands

read
           Read the value of a key.

       list
           List the sub-keys and sub-directories of a directory.

       write
           Write a new value to a key.

       reset
           Reset a key or an entire directory. For directories, -f must be specified.

       compile
           Compile a binary database from keyfiles.

           The result is always in little-endian byte order, so it can be safely installed in 'share'. If it is
           used on a big endian machine, dconf will automatically byteswap the contents on read.

       update
           Update the system dconf databases.

       watch
           Watch a key or directory for changes.

       dump
           Dump an entire subpath to stdout. The output is in a keyfile-like format, with values in GVariant
           syntax.

       load
           Populate a subpath from stdin. The expected format is the same as produced by dump. Attempting to
           change non-writable keys cancels the load command. To ignore changes to non-writable keys instead,
           use -f.

       help
           Display help and exit. If COMMAND is given, display help for this command.

Description

       The dconf program can perform various operations on a dconf database, such as reading or writing
       individual values or entire directories. This tool operates on dconf directly, without using gsettings
       schema information. Therefore, it cannot perform type and consistency checks on values. The gsettings(1)
       utility is an alternative if such checks are needed.

       The DIR arguments must be directory paths (starting and ending with '/'), the KEY arguments must be key
       paths (starting, but not ending with '/') and the PATH arguments can be either directory or key paths.

       The OUTPUT argument must the location to write a (binary) dconf database to and the KEYFILEDIR argument
       must be a .d directory containing keyfiles.

       VALUE arguments must be in GVariant format, so e.g. a string must include explicit quotes: "'foo'". This
       format is also used when printing out values.

       Note that dconf needs a D-Bus session bus connection to write changes to the dconf database.

Environment

DCONF_PROFILE
           This environment variable determines which dconf profile to use. See dconf(7).

Name

       dconf - Simple tool for manipulating a dconf database

See Also

dconf(7), gsettings(1), dconf-editor(1)

dconf                                                                                                   DCONF(1)

Synopsis

dconf read [-d] KEYdconf list DIRdconf write KEYVALUEdconf reset [-f] PATHdconf compile OUTPUTKEYFILEDIRdconf update [DBDIR]

       dconf watch PATHdconf dump DIRdconf load [-f] DIRdconf help [COMMAND]

See Also