Can't adjust launcher icon size

[Jim Byrnes]

On 02/07/2014 04:58 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 02/07/2014 01:27 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> I forgot to answer your question about "no such schema". I don't
>>> really know what to do except to check what keys exist with
>>>
>>> dconf list /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/
>>>
>>> (I tried to come up with a gsettings invocation for about 5 minutes
>>> and then gave up. Had I known about dconf when I first needed to
>>> change the icon size, I would've probably have used dconf too because
>>> figuring out how gsettings works is a PitA!)
>>
>> Well if it is a PitA! for you, it is a PitA! + a couple of hemorrhoids for
>> me. I find that I don't have dconf installed. So I'll install it and see
>> what it looks like.
>>
>> Thanks, Jim
>
> You're welcome.
>
> JIC, dconf is provided by dconf-cli.
>
> I don't know how/why I didn't figure it out earlier but I tried again
> and stumbled upon this almost immediately:
>
> gsettings list-keys
> org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/
>
> It's a PitA nonetheless. Perhaps because I don't understand gnome and
> its settings as well as the person who came up with gsettings' obtuse
> syntax...
>
> FTR, the dconf equivalent of the earlier gsettings command is:
>
> dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/ 16
>

FWIW I cut and pasted the above command in a terminal and got this 
error: dconf key must not end with a slash.  Fixed that and the command 
ran without errors, however the size of the icons on the launcher did 
not change on my 12.04 system.  I shut down every night so I'll see what 
happens tomorrow when I boot up.

Regards,  Jim