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
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Show command synopsis.
--list
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List all properties xdg-settings knows about.
--manual
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Show this manualpage.
--version
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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
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Error in command line syntax.
2
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One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.
3
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A required tool could not be found.
4
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The action failed.
EXAMPLES
Get the desktop file name of the current default web browser
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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)
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xdg-settings check default-web-browser firefox.desktop
Set the default web browser to google-chrome.desktop
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xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
AUTHOR
Mike Mammarella
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Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- EXIT CODES
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- EXAMPLES
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- AUTHOR
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- COPYRIGHT
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