How to globally change a Gnome/Unity schema setting for your desktop

Posted on January 16, 2018 by SoCRaT

Simply do the following:

  1. Edit the attribute you need to change in a specific schema inside /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/[your_schema_name], e.g. 
    sudo vi /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.canonical.canonical.indicator.session.gschema.xml
  2. Change the value you need, in my case I wanted to disable the user-show-menu key, so I changed it from the default value of true to false
  3. After you’re done, just run: 
    glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Enjoy!

Sources:

  1. http://www.techytalk.info/customize-default-desktop-environment-settings-gnome-centric-linux-distributions/
  2. https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/GSettings
  3. https://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/stable/tech-gsettings.html.ru

About SoCRaT

Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek
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2 Responses to How to globally change a Gnome/Unity schema setting for your desktop

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