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<revision pkgversion="3.30" date="2019-02-08" status="incomplete"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="collaborator">
<name>Ryan Lortie</name>
<email>desrt@desrt.ca</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Jim Campbell</name>
<email>jcampbell@gnome.org</email>
<years>2014</years>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Petr Kovar</name>
<email>pknbe@volny.cz</email>
<years>2019</years>
</credit>
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<desc>What is <sys>dconf</sys>? How can it be used to edit configurations?</desc>
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<title>Manage user and system settings with dconf</title>
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<p><sys>dconf</sys> is one of the main configuration utilities in GNOME. Its
purpose is to help you set and manage GNOME system and application
settings.</p>
<p>To give you an idea of the power of <sys>dconf</sys> within GNOME, a
<sys>dconf</sys> key exists for most every setting that a user can click on
in the GNOME desktop or in any GNOME application. In addition to this, there
are some system and application settings that cannot even be changed from
within the user interface, but which <em>can</em> be changed by using
<sys>dconf</sys>.</p>
<p>As an administrator, this means that knowing how to use <sys>dconf</sys>
will help you to customize GNOME and GNOME-based applications to best suit
the needs of your particular environment.</p>
<p>Users can override the customized defaults with their own settings, unless
the administrator locks these defaults to prevent overriding.</p>
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