Re: How to set a value using gsettings

[Marco <netuse lavabit com>]

On 2012-02-04 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?
> 
> GNOME 3.2.1

I did some more testing. The results:

∙ Setting the value from within dconf-editor works perfect.

∙ When the value for idle-dim-battery is set or unset via
dconf-editor the following outputs always true, regardless of the
real value:
gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery

∙ The following does not return an error message, but the value is
in fact not changed, it stays on the value set within dconf-editor:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery false

∙ The following never works:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true

error message:

GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
Failed to set value

This seems very weird to me. Any help appreciated.

Regards

Marco