{"id":3324,"date":"2012-02-25T18:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=3324#post-"},"modified":"2012-02-25T18:41:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T16:41:33","slug":"how-to-setget-default-values-for-configuration-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2012\/02\/25\/how-to-setget-default-values-for-configuration-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set\/get default values for configuration keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like dconf (the command) doesn&#8217;t read values of keys that haven&#8217;t been explicitly set by the user.<\/p>\n<pre><code>jani@saegusa:~$ dconf read \/org\/gnome\/desktop\/session\/idle-delay\r\njani@saegusa:~$ <\/code><\/pre>\n<p>So how do I get the value of <code>idle-delay<\/code> whether or not it&#8217;s user-set?<\/p>\n<p>By using gsettings instead of dconf:<\/p>\n<pre><code>jani@saegusa:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay\r\nuint32 600<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Note that setting the value to what is default for the key isn&#8217;t the same as <em>resetting<\/em> the key:<\/p>\n<pre><code>jani@saegusa:~$ dconf write \/org\/gnome\/desktop\/session\/idle-delay 'uint32 600'\r\njani@saegusa:~$ dconf read \/org\/gnome\/desktop\/session\/idle-delay\r\nuint32 600<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You see, now even according to dconf the key <em>is<\/em> set even though it just holds the default value.<\/p>\n<p>To actually reset the dconf key, you use its <code>reset<\/code> command:<\/p>\n<pre><code>jani@saegusa:~$ dconf reset \/org\/gnome\/desktop\/session\/idle-delay\r\njani@saegusa:~$ dconf read \/org\/gnome\/desktop\/session\/idle-delay\r\njani@saegusa:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay\r\nuint32 600<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like dconf (the command) doesn&#8217;t read values of keys that haven&#8217;t been explicitly set by the user. jani@saegusa:~$ dconf read \/org\/gnome\/desktop\/session\/idle-delay jani@saegusa:~$ So how do I get the value of idle-delay whether or not it&#8217;s user-set? By using gsettings instead of dconf: jani@saegusa:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay uint32 600 Note that setting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}