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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?

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  • Do you see any changes done to dconf when running gsetting? Use: dconf watch /org/gnome/ idle-delay
    – slybloty
    Feb 27, 2020 at 15:03
  • @slybloty I ran dconf watch /org/gnome/ idle-delay in first terminal. And I used gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 80 in another terminal. Nothing happened on the first terminal.
    – Porcupine
    Feb 28, 2020 at 11:44

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
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I had a similar problem with gsettings not being able to change the desktop background. Then I found this link showing that the anaconda installation changes the path from the original gsettings:

$ which gsettings
/home/rafael/.anaconda3/bin/gsettings

So I moved ~/.anaconda3/bin/gsettings to ~/.anaconda3/bin/gsettings_bkp, and now the original gsettings is being used:

$ which gsettings
/usr/bin/gsettings

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