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Ringtail
Asked: 2012-02-14 14:15:05 +0800 CST

gconf-editor settings not being saved

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Recent gconf-editor settings

In terminal

gconftool-2 --type int --set /desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_age "-1"

Cannot make setting stick. I can change the setting if the integer is a positive number but it will not resort to MINUS number

gconf 11.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's a little tricky setting negative values with gconftool, you need to prepend with --

    So for your example 

    gconftool --set --type int  /desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_age -- -1
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  2. Nope this might still not work. I suggest you to Download Dconf. Its the newer version of Gconf. See I dont know much about these. But few days back when my login sound was not working I frist tried to reset a sound value using Gconf but after logout the value were lost. After that I tried Dconf and It worked !!!

    I think Gconf is for old apps and Dconf is for newer One.

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