dconf-manager

Tool for managing GNOME dconf settings

This config says to purge everything in /org/gnome/gedit and add the given configuration.

$ cat dconf.ini
[org/gnome/gedit]
[org/gnome/gedit/preferences/editor]
auto-indent=true
bracket-matching=true
insert-spaces=true
tabs-size=uint32 4
wrap-mode='none'

$ ./dconf_manager.py dconf.ini
< org/gnome/gedit/plugins/active-plugins=['modelines', 'filebrowser', 'spell', 'docinfo', 'time']
> org/gnome/gedit/preferences/editor/auto-indent=true
> org/gnome/gedit/preferences/editor/bracket-matching=true
> org/gnome/gedit/preferences/editor/insert-spaces=true
> org/gnome/gedit/preferences/editor/tabs-size=uint32 4
> org/gnome/gedit/preferences/editor/wrap-mode='none'
< org/gnome/gedit/preferences/ui/show-tabs-mode='auto'
< org/gnome/gedit/state/window/bottom-panel-size=140
< org/gnome/gedit/state/window/side-panel-active-page='GeditWindowDocumentsPanel'
< org/gnome/gedit/state/window/side-panel-size=200
< org/gnome/gedit/state/window/size=(900, 700)
< org/gnome/gedit/state/window/state=128

By default, nothing is done. Pass -a / --apply to actually commit the changes to dconf.

See --help for more.

Development

Python 3 is required.

pip install -r dev_requirements.txt
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