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Gnome

History

  • Gnome 1
    • introduced because kde used qt proprietary toolkit
    • same as traditional desktop environment
  • Gnome 2
    • used Metacity as window manager (Gnome 2.2)
    • it has a fork called MATE desktop environment, because of some changes in gnome 3
  • Gnome 3
    • not followed tradition desktop metaphor
    • mutter as window manager
  • Gnome 40
    • current version

Using dconf-editor

What is dconf?

dconf is a simple key-based configuration system. Keys exist in an unstructured database (but it is intended that keys that logically belong together are grouped together).

Having all of the keys in a single compact binary format also avoids the intense fragmentation problems currently experienced by the tree-of-directories-of-xml-files approach.

Using gsettings

Gsettings is High-level API for application settings.

How to log out

gnome-session-quit
# OR
gnome-session-save --force-logout

References