SYNOPSIS
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xdg-settings {get | check | set} {property} [subproperty] [value]
- xdg-settings {--help | --list | --manual | --version}
DESCRIPTION
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.
PROPERTIES
When using xdg-settings to get, check or set a destkop 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 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
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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
Set the default mailto URL scheme handler to be evolution.desktop
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xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto evolution.desktop
AUTHOR
Mike Mammarella
- Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009-2011
NOTES
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