Re: web page with instructions ... [Enabling Icons on the desktop via dconf CLI]



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

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.

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