On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 07:13 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:30 -0700, Bob Frazier wrote: >> > On 08/07/12 05:10, Diego Fernandez so wittily quipped: >> > > Hmm... Most of this has been covered countless times. I read your >> > > page, and to tell you the truth I didn't find much useful information. >> Because not everything can be a standard feature - these standard >> features would collide. And, I don't have to install anything to get >> these features, so they are supported out-of-the-box. Desktop icons >> (nautilus on the desktop) is just a gsetting. > > sorry, muscle memory kicked in. It isn't gsettings, it is now dconf. > > dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/background/show-desktop-icons true
The two are (mostly) one and the same.* gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true * dconf is the backend for gsettings on Linux systems > Then you have the file manager on the desktop. > > It is very simple to create a script that uses dconf to create the > environment you want. Then you can run that in any gnome-shell session > and get your preferences. > > Once upon a time there was a prototype LDAP backend for gconf... that > was awesome, you could store your session settings and preferences on a > server, but that went away a very long time ago. > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
