I did as follows:
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay
uint32 300
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 80
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay
uint32 80
But when I do: dconf dump /org/gnome/
, I see as follows:
$ dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/session
[/]
idle-delay=uint32 60
Observation: dconf dump
shows real value, but gsettings
shows new value but it is different from the one shown by dconf-editor
After Restarting
$ dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/session
[/]
idle-delay=uint32 60
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay
uint32 300
Observation: dconf dump
shows real value, but gsettings
shows default value
Does this mean that gsettings
are not working on my system? If so, how can I fix this?
dconf
when runninggsetting
? Use:dconf watch /org/gnome/ idle-delay
dconf watch /org/gnome/ idle-delay
in first terminal. And I usedgsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 80
in another terminal. Nothing happened on the first terminal.