I've automated my Ubuntu installation - I've got Python code that runs automatically (after a clean install, but before the first user login - it's in a temporary /etc/init.d/ script) that sets up everything from Apache & its configuration to my personal Gnome preferences. It's the latter that's giving me trouble. This worked fine in Ub...
I am trying to make an installation script to automatize certain actions, and I found the gconf tool to be very useful. However, it's a lot more of a fluke chance that I find the right value in the editor or find the line on google. Is there a way to check what changes in the GUI do in gconf? It would certainly make life easier. ...
I have a python script that correctly sets the desktop wallpaper via gconf to a random picture in a given folder. I then have the following entry in my crontab * * * * * python /home/bolster/bin/change-background.py And syslog correctly reports execution Apr 26 14:11:01 bolster-desktop CRON[9751]: (bolster) CMD (python /home...
Hello, i use gconf/gconf-client.h in ,y C application, but i don't know, is gconf on users machine. How can i check gconf/gconf-client.h and gconf there or not? Thank you ...
Last time I started to having problem with gconftools, I'm using Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04 LTS When I make command gconftools-2 --spawn I've gor an error: Failed to spawn the configuration server (gconfd): Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ...
What are the benefits of choosing either: a file in the user's home directory, e.g. ~/.myapp/config using the user's gconf database I already know a couple of things; storing data in the user's gconf database makes it a little harder for the user to copy those settings out and onto another account or computer. On the other hand, is i...
THE NEW QUERY: I am trying to make a unified script that initializes a new Ubuntu install to my liking, it must be run under sudo to install packages, but using gconftool-2 to affect gconf setting relies on the dbus session which is not handled properly by the method of simply changing UID in the script alone. Does someone know how to ma...
Is there something equivalent (and available by default) to gconf on OSX? ...