[lug] Ubuntu 14.04 Unity Desktop Config Files?

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

Howdy,

I don't even pretend to know anything about GUIs and Desktops, so -- in
case it's helpful to anyone -- here's what I did:

   - I found System Settings -> Brightness and Lock to see what it was
   supposed to do.
   - I googled "Unity screen lock", because, well, I hoped it would tell me
   *something.* Here's one thing
   <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2205398> that popped up:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled false


   - That flipped the switch in the little GUI "Settings" popup (and "true"
   flipped the switch back), so I ran this:

strace gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled false

           hoping it would tell me what file it was writing. Looked like it
might be ~/.config/dconf/user

open("/home/jhaemer/.config/dconf/user", O_RDONLY) = 4


   - I flipped the switch back and forth and saw the modification time on
   that file change.
   - I captured the file in each state, ran od -c on the two versions, and
   diffed the results. Here's what I see:

834c834
< 0032020   n   a   b   l   e   d  \0  \0 001  \0   b   s   t   a   t   e
---
> 0032020   n   a   b   l   e   d  \0  \0  \0  \0   b   s   t   a   t   e



Other files may need to change too, like /run/user/1000/dconf/user, but maybe
changing ~/.config/dconf/user by hand is enough. I haven't gone the last
mile because ... well, because this was actually fun, and you shouldn't
miss out on all of it.

HTH!







On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:51 PM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a small system with Ubuntu 14.04 and Unity desktop. I'm trying to
> configure the desktop through file edits rather than the GUI tool.
> Specifically, I'm looking for the files which are listed in the GUI as
> "Brightness & Lock". Is anyone here familiar with the location of this
> config file?
>
> Thanks!
>
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