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Seth
Asked: 2013-10-16 13:56:13 +0800 CST

Is it possible to monitor dconf for changes?

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I would like to monitor dconf for changes so that while I tinker with settings, applications and the like I can see what keys are changed, if any.

Is there a way I can accomplish this?

dconf

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  1. Best Answer

    If you want real-time monitoring, you could run the dconf watch command in a terminal, either to monitor a specific schema path 

    dconf watch /desktop/gnome/remote-access/

    or the whole tree

    dconf watch /

    which will show a running output as you change values, e.g. toggling the 'Desktop Sharing' security preference checkbox produces

    /desktop/gnome/remote-access/notify-on-connect
  false

/desktop/gnome/remote-access/notify-on-connect
  true

    If you just want a list of changes, you could use dconf dump redirected to a file to create before and after snapshots that you can then compare with diff.

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