Re: How to set a value using gsettings

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Marco <netuse lavabit com> wrote:
> I want to alter the setting idle-dim-battery and can't figure out
> how to do that. I tried:
>
> gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true
>
> But I get an error:
>
> Failed to set value
>
> How to set this value?

What you do looks exactly right (and works fine here). Are you running
this inside a desktop session ? (writing settings requires a D-Bus
session bus) Does

gsettings get org.gnome.session-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery

work and report a value ?