The DIR arguments must be directory paths (starting and ending with '/'), the KEY arguments must be key paths (starting, but not ending with '/') and the PATH arguments can be either directory or key paths.

The OUTPUT argument must the location to write a (binary) dconf database to and the KEYFILEDIR argument must be a .d directory containing keyfiles.

VALUE arguments must be in GVariant format, so e.g. a string must include explicit quotes: "'foo'". This format is also used when printing out values.

Note that dconf needs a D-Bus session bus connection to write changes to the dconf database.

COMMANDS

read

Read the value of a key.

list

List the sub-keys and sub-directories of a directory.

write

Write a new value to a key.

reset

Reset a key or an entire directory. For directories, -f must be specified.

compile

Compile a binary database from keyfiles.

The result is always in little-endian byte order, so it can be safely installed in 'share'. If it is used on a big endian machine, dconf will automatically byteswap the contents on read.

update

Update the system dconf databases.

watch

Watch a key or directory for changes.

dump

Dump an entire subpath to stdout. The output is in a keyfile-like format, with values in GVariant syntax.

load

Populate a subpath from stdin. The expected format is the same as produced by dump.

help

Display help and exit. If COMMAND is given, display help for this command.

ENVIRONMENT

DCONF_PROFILE

This environment variable determines which dconf profile to use. See dconf(7).

SEE ALSO

dconf(7), gsettings(1), dconf-editor(1)