synchronize gnome 3 (panel) settings between computers

Question

I'd like to synchronize the configuration of my gnome panel(s) between computers and keep the configuration in Git. How can I dump / import the necessary information? I already found gconftool2 --dump but did not find anything that looked like my panel configuration inside.

Update: I'm using gnome3 classic mode (together with xmonad as window-manager). I found the configuration setting with the dconf-editor below org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout. It's however still cumbersome to come up with the correct shell scripting to extract and sync only the configuration that I want to share.

I've opened a wishlist issue in the gnome bugzilla for a dconf sync tool: 710930

Answer 1

Updated answer

With dconf (which you are using), gnome-panel's config can be dumped out with the following command:

dconf dump /org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout > settings.txt

Then you can edit the file (it's plain text file) to contain only the settings you want to sync, and then load the settings from the file as following:

dconf load /org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout < settings.txt

Original answer

I think gconftool should work well. The following command will dump gnome-panels settings (from directory ~/.gconf/apps/panel) to .xml file called backup.xml: gconftool --dump /apps/panel > backup.xml.

Then do the following to load configs from backup.xml: gconftool --load backup.xml.