[Novalug] fedora 16: add to menu / desktop

Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 09:32:27 EST 2011


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:14:38AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:37:33AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > Or you can simply use the gsettings tool:
> > 
> > $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true
> > $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
> 
>      Simple and Intuitive   :))
> 
> 
> I think I'll retain a copy of this thread just for the mention
> of several approaches to doing gnome-things.

Also I pointed out somewhere (probably it was a reply to an off-list
email) that gsettings has bash-completion capability.  So you can type
'gsettings [Tab][Tab]' and get sub-commands, or completion of settings
hierarchies, etc.

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