Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV

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School of Computing
and Communications

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XDG-SETTINGS

Section: xdg-settings Manual (1)
Updated: 12/31/2010
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NAME

xdg-settings - get various settings from the desktop environment

SYNOPSIS

xdg-settings {get | check | set} {property} [value]
xdg-settings {--help | --list | --manual | --version}

DESCRIPTION

xdg-settings gets various settings from the desktop environment. For instance, desktop environments often provide proxy configuration and default web browser settings. Using xdg-settings these parameters can be extracted for use by applications that do not use the desktop environment's libraries (which would use the settings natively).

xdg-settings is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not recommended to use xdg-settings as root.

OPTIONS

--help

: Show command synopsis.

--list

: List all properties xdg-settings knows about.

--manual

: Show this manualpage.

--version

: Show the xdg-utils version information.

EXIT CODES

An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:

: Error in command line syntax.

: One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.

: A required tool could not be found.

: The action failed.

EXAMPLES

Get the desktop file name of the current default web browser

        xdg-settings get default-web-browser

Check whether the default web browser is firefox.desktop, which can be false even if "get default-web-browser" says that is the current value (if only some of the underlying settings actually reflect that value)

        xdg-settings check default-web-browser firefox.desktop

Set the default web browser to google-chrome.desktop

        xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop

AUTHOR

Mike Mammarella

: Author.

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