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artu-hnrq
Asked: 2020-04-25 23:09:08 +0800 CST

Does dconf default terminal profile UUID change between Ubuntu installations?

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I would like to make my dconf setting portable, thus I'm writing it out to a file with dconf dump / > file. However, when it comes of terminal profile setting, my profile UUID is included

[org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9]
visible-name='artu-hnrq'
use-theme-colors=false
1use-transparent-background=true
background-transparency-percent=8

So, supposing each Ubuntu installation generates a different default terminal profile UUID, I'm considering the dump file won't apply the desired configuration properly, since the target installation terminal profile UUID won't be the same when I run dconf load / < file in another computer.

This way I would like to read the machine terminal profile UUID before set up dconf keys.

Is there a way to work with variables inside this file? Or is there another way to working around it?

gnome gnome-terminal settings dconf system-settings

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Surprisingly, the default (first) profile has this ID on every computer.

    The list of gnome-terminal profiles, as well the default one, are stored in org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/list and org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/default, respectively. You can query and restore them with dconf just as you do with the profiles themselves (e.g. dconf read [...]), or use their result in constructing the next dconf command line.

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