This article was first written in April 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/119)GConf is GNOME's configuration database. It provides tools for configuring every GNOME application installed. To learn more about what GConf is, how it works, and what tools are available for it, read the very good gnome-gconf documentation
This article was first written in April 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/116)The configuration is stored in gconf under the namespace /apps/evolution/mail. To list its content:
$ gconftool-2 --recursive-list /apps/evolution/mail
This article was first written in April 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/115)To set the default HTTP proxy configuration for GNOME using GConf in command-line:
$ gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set /system/http_proxy/host proxy-name $ gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type string --set /system/http_proxy/port proxy-port