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Robin Winslow
Asked: 2016-01-21 01:10:22 +0800 CST

gconf override glib schema error - "can not parse as value of type 'd'"

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I'm trying to override the gconf settings for text-scaling-factor and scaling-factor on my system, following the method mentioned here.

So I created a file at /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/30-retina-scaling.gschema.override with this contents:

[org.gnome.desktop.interface]
text-scaling-factor="0.75"
scaling-factor="2"

But when I try to compile it I get the error "can not parse as value of type":

$ sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
error parsing key 'text-scaling-factor' in schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' as specified in override file '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/30-retina-scaling.gschema.override': 0-6:can not parse as value of type 'd'.Ignoring override for this key.
error parsing key 'scaling-factor' in schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' as specified in override file '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/30-retina-scaling.gschema.override': 0-3:can not parse as value of type 'u'.Ignoring override for this key.
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    So it turns out it's the quotation marks that mess this up. The contents of the file should be:

    [org.gnome.desktop.interface]
text-scaling-factor=0.75
scaling-factor=2
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