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

I found  the (embarrassing)  solution: I  had another  self compiled
binary in $HOME/bin that was used instead of the system-wide one and
was the cause of the trouble.

I'm sorry for the noise and  thank all people who helped finding the
culprit, especially Milan.

Marco