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Need to make changes made by ccsm on the command line

Asked by Jerry Robinson

For production purposes, we need to be able to replicate, using the command line (I imagine by using gfconftool-2 -s), changes made using ccsm. How would one backtrack those changes?

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Try
man gconftool-2

e.g. to view diff
list custom values
gconftool-2 --recursive-list /apps/compiz-1/plugins/composite
reset to default
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1/plugins/composite
list default values
gconftool-2 --recursive-list /apps/compiz-1/plugins/composite

http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/

Not sure, it could be that 13.04 ccsm is using gsettings (dconf).

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Jerry Robinson (gt-jerry-yq) said : 		#2

ccsm is using dconf. So a restatement of the question would be... how do I import a compiz profile from the command line? I can see the changes using dconf -dump /org/compiz, but I can't find any way to import those settings not using the GUI.

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

Maybe it's similar to gconf using 'load'.
gconftool-2 --dump /apps/compiz > gconf.compiz.backup.xml.dump
gconftool-2 --load=gconf.compiz.backup.xml.dump

There it says dconf is using profiles.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/93923/where-are-the-dconf-profiles

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Jerry Robinson (gt-jerry-yq) said : 		#4

That got it. In my specific case, I needed to do the following...
dconf dump /org/ > dconforg.dat
dconf load /org/ < dconfiorg.dat

Important: To get the dconf load command to work from within puppet (which we were trying to do), we needed to make sure the script was running as the user for whom we wanted the settings to apply, and we had to run this command first...
/bin/sh -c eval `dbus-launch --auto-syntax`.

Thanks!

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Jerry Robinson (gt-jerry-yq) said : 		#5

Thanks Sam_, that solved my question.