On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 12:29 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 4 September 2012 12:21, 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 is just a gsettings backend - you're not meant to use it directly. > > dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/background/show-desktop-icons true > don't do that. use the gsettings command: > gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true > it even has tab completion, just in case. Excellent, I've been advised both ways in the past, so that is good to know. > > 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. > again, don't. use the correct way to create overrides: > https://live.gnome.org/dconf/SystemAdministrators Yes, I've used lockdown as an administrator. But I don't know if profiles are really useful for the end user - they are very confusing to setup, and there is zero documentation. How does one choose a profile? But from an administrator's persepctive the profiles / key-files are pretty slick. Almost like GPOs.
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