gsettings.el

This Emacs package provides helpers for GSettings, the configuration system used by the Gnome desktop.

It can be used to read (and set) desktop configuration settings in Emacs, which can be useful in init.el to set Emacs settings based on the desktop configuration.

For parsing of configuration values, this package uses the gvariant.el library.

Installation

Install gsettings.el from Melpa, e.g.

M-x package-install RET gsettings RET

Or, using use-package:

(use-package gsettings)

Usage

Example:

(use-package gsettings
  :config
  (when (gsettings-available?)
    (blink-cursor-mode (if (gsettings-get "org.gnome.desktop.interface" "cursor-blink") 1 -1))))

After loading the library with (require 'gsettings) (not needed when using use-package), you can use the following functions:

• gsettings-available? ()
• gsettings-get (schema key)
• gsettings-get-default (schema key default)
• gsettings-list-schemas ()
• gsettings-schema-exists? (schema)
• gsettings-list-keys (schema)
• gsettings-reset (schema key)
• gsettings-set-from-gvariant-string (schema key value)
• gsettings-gnome-running?
• gsettings-apply-gnome-settings

Most functions require the gsettings tool to be installed. You can use the gsettings-available? helper as a guard.

License

(This is the OSI approved 3-Clause BSD License.)

Copyright 2019 wouter bolsterlee

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