I loaded dconf-editor. There is no menu, but I did discover that you can press Ctrl+F and enter a search term.
However, I do not know what Ctrl+F actually searches. When I enter a term (e.g. panel or unity-greeter), I receive no results.
I have also tried gsettings at the command line, but with no luck whatever options I have tried; I must be doing it incorrectly.
How do I search for a specific key or value within dconf?
I have installed dconf-tools. In this case I am manipulating the display of a name in the panel on the session indicator.
I can change this in dconf-editor gui with no problem, I go to apps/indicator-session, and untick show-real-name-on-panel.
However, I have also tried to toggle it just using dconf at the command line:
dconf write /com/canonical/indicator/session/show-real-name-on-panel false
After rebooting, the panel is unchanged, and the key in the dconf-editor is unchanged as well.
Moreover, trying to update the dconf database via the terminal yields an error:
$ dconf update
fatal: Error opening directory '/etc/dconf/db': No such file or directory
From my experience it seems as though dconf and dconf-editor have no relationship, so I just wonder what I am doing wrong.
If I can get this figured out, I want to just place the command in a bash script to run the next time I have to do a clean install for an upgrade*. I do a lot of tweaks in 6 months and I just want to automate as much as possible from now on.
Dconf is pretty young, yet my database is already a mess with lots of "schema-less" keys. Is there a way to do some cleaning up, or would I need to start from scratch (by removing ~/.config/dconf/user I guess)?
Mark Shuttleworth recently blogged about the decision to include the Qt libraries in the 11.10 release, with a followup from Jono Bacon. Mark states that the biggest challenge to integrating apps written in Qt into the larger Ubuntu system is Qt's current non-compatibility with dconf.
What is dconf, and what is the role it plays in Ubuntu?
Is there an equivalent to gconf-editor for GSettings/dconf?
I know that I can use gsettings set ... on the command line, but that's a bit inconvenient (especially with list types).