Home / ubuntu / Questions / 93923
Accepted
keepitsimpleengineer
Asked: 2012-01-09 14:01:35 +0800 CST

Where are the dconf profiles?

  • 772

The dconf System Administrator Guide says that "dconf stores its profiles in text files in /etc/dconf/profile/" but on my 11.10 Ubuntu laptop, there is no /etc/dconf directory.

Have profiles been deprecated or where are they now?

application-development

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You are not confused about which dconf you are using.

    dconf takes the approach that, in the default configuration, there should be no files in /etc/. You only add files there if you want to make changes to the default configuration. For that reason it's true that /etc/dconf/ doesn't exist by default. You need to create it and populate it according to the documentation on that wiki page in order to setup profiles.

    You can indicate a dconf profile in another directory. For example:

    export DCONF_PROFILE=/home/user/mydconfprofile
    • 2