Thanks for the reply, I googled yesterday after sending my inquiry to PLUG and found this link: http://codeidol.com/unix/ubuntu/The-Linux-Desktop/Get-Under-the-Hood-of-the-GNOME-Desktop/
I hope some PLUG-list subscriber may need this and be guided accordingly. Getting a hint of gconftool, issuing: man gconftool also yielded a comprehensive resource. Thanks for responding. On 8/23/07, Gerald Timothy Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 14:55 +0800, Tito Mari Francis Escaño wrote: > > > Editing configuration text files was supposed to be the > > strength/flexibility of Linux/*BSD/UNIX over other systems and I'd > > highly appreciate your help. > > graphical tools on linux tend toward graphical configuration. > > gnome, in particular, seems to be tending toward over-complex, > almost windows-registry like configuration. > > If you don't like that, a little googling found me: > > http://dave-webster.com/blog/?p=36 > > Which points you at gconftool, a command line program, it's > not text editing, but it's not graphical either. > > configuration via easy to configure text files is still very common > on linux. certainly it's more common than on windows. but as with > everything, don't take the map for the territory. the territory > changes. there's a continuum between window's almost entirely > graphical configuration (you *can* do some things with old school > tools such as ipconfig, net, etc) and linux' mostly text editor > compatible (but moving toward graphical ease-of-use for many things) > configuration. > > if you really want to edit the files, well, > > ~/.gconf/apps/metacity/general > > tiger > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaño Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
