Chapter 9. Configuring Desktop with GSettings and dconf

dconf is a key-based configuration system which manages user settings. It is the back end for GSettings used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. dconf manages a range of different settings, including GDM, application, and proxy settings.

The dconf command-line utility is used for reading and writing individual values or entire directories from and to a dconf database.

GSettings is a high-level API for application settings, front end for dconf.

The gsettings command-line tool is used to view and change user settings.