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

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Adam  Tauno Williams
<awilliam 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.
>
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  Jasper