xdg-settings(1)
NAME
xdg-settings - get various settings from the desktop environment
SYNOPSIS
xdg-settings {get | check | set} {property} [value]
xdg-settings {--help | --list | --manual | --version}
DESCRIPTION
xdg-settings gets various settings from the desktop environment. For
instance, desktop environments often provide proxy configuration and
default web browser settings. Using xdg-settings these parameters can
be extracted for use by applications that do not use the desktop
environment's libraries (which would use the settings natively).
xdg-settings is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not
recommended to use xdg-settings as root.
OPTIONS
- --help
- Show command synopsis.
- --list
- List all properties xdg-settings knows about.
- --manual
- Show this manualpage.
- --version
- Show the xdg-utils version information.
EXIT CODES
An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code
indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:
- 1
- Error in command line syntax.
- 2
- One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.
- 3
- A required tool could not be found.
- 4
- The action failed.
EXAMPLES
- Get the desktop file name of the current default web browser
- xdg-settings get default-web-browser
- Check whether the default web browser is firefox.desktop, which can be false even if "get default-web-browser" says that is the current value (if only some of the underlying settings actually reflect that value)
xdg-settings check default-web-browser firefox.desktop- Set the default web browser to google-chrome.desktop
xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
AUTHOR
- Mike Mammarella
- Author.
COPYRIGHT
- Copyright (C) 2009