Running gsettings as root

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 12:41 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 08:07:42PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> > You could run your scripts from the system crontab,
> This is actually what I do.
> 
> But the problem is NOT to run the scripts as the specified user.

Maybe you misunderstand - the system crontab runs jobs as root AND can
run jobs as any other specified user. So jobs run from the system
crontab can be run as root regardless of whether some other user is
logged in or not.

> The problem is that they won't work while the user is logged in
> because dbus-launch starts a new dbus-instance and the changes done
> by gsettings will be discarded as soon as dbus-launch exits.

I have no idea why that is relevant. I'm not saying it is not relevant,
just that I don't understand why it would be. Why is that relevant?

Regards, K.

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