Setting dconf values as admin

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 13:26:26 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
>  https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/dconf/SystemAdministrators?action=show&redirect=dconf%2FSystemAdministrators

Hi,

I didn't read the Wiki.

>I have created a file
>
>  $ sudo cat /etc/dconf/db/ibus.d/01-cfsvn-global-defaults
>  [org/gnome/desktop/background]
>  picture-uri='file:///etc/lightdm/my-wallpaper.jpg'
>
>
>But this don't seem to have any effect. I have run "dconf update" as
>root and as ordinary user. Still no effect.
>
>Any ideas?

I don't know if or how /etc/dconf works, resp. if or how dconf update works, but you should be able to change settings for another user by running

sudo -u user_name dbus-launch dconf load /org/gnome/desktop/background/ < /etc/dconf/db/ibus.d/01-cfsvn-global-defaults

or

cat /etc/dconf/db/ibus.d/01-cfsvn-global-defaults | sudo -u user_name dbus-launch dconf load /org/gnome/desktop/background/

resp. depending on the read permissions

sudo cat /etc/dconf/db/ibus.d/01-cfsvn-global-defaults | sudo -u user_name dbus-launch dconf load /org/gnome/desktop/background/

Regards,
Ralf