Hello,
I would like to set some default/mandatory gconf settings for all users
automatically. I know I can do the settings I need with commands like
sudo gconftool-2 --direct \
--config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \
-t bool false \
-s /apps/gnome-power-manager/can_hibernate
This would set the configuration for all users, just what I want. The problem
is that the gconftool-2 manpage says that the --direct option requires that
gconfd is not running. This is a big problem for me, since I want to do those
settings automated with a tool like cfengine, so I don't know whether any
users are logged in into the desktop.
Unfortunately, gconfd don't seem to have a manpage and google don't find
any really usable information, too.
So here are my questions:
- given that /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory is opened by gconfd readonly,
is it _really_ needed to shut down any gconfd processes? After all,
setting defaults/mandatory values is something to be done by the
administrator. There's no point to mess with such things from a normal
desktop session. And the administrator should be able to change such
things without logging into any users session.
- If the answer to the previous question is "yes": do I need to throw
the users out from the desktops to shut down gconfd? Or can I simply
kill the gconfd processes?
- Once the change is made, how do I restart it? Or can I just let gconfd
running and force it to flush its cache somehow?
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