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NAMExdg-settings - get various settings from the desktop environment SYNOPSISxdg-settings {get | check | set} {property} [subproperty] [value] xdg-settings {--help | --list | --manual | --version} DESCRIPTIONxdg-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 manual page.
--version Show the xdg-utils version information.
PROPERTIESWhen using xdg-settings to get, check or set a desktop setting, properties and possibly sub-properties are used to specify the setting to be changed. Some properties (such as default-web-browser) fully describe the setting to be changed. Other properties (such as default-url-scheme-handler) require more information (in this case the actual scheme to set the default handler for) which must be provided in a sub-property. EXIT CODESAn 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.
SEE ALSOxdg-mime(1), xdg-open(1), MIME applications associations specification[1] EXAMPLESGet the desktop file name of the current 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)
Set the default web browser to google-chrome.desktop
Set the default mailto URL scheme handler to be evolution.desktop
AUTHORMike Mammarella Author.
COPYRIGHTCopyright © 2009-2011 NOTES
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-apps-spec/
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