Gnome Terminal Profiles

1. Install dconf tools
2. Using dconf
3. Create a GTerminal profile archive
4. Load a GTerminal profile

Install dconf tools

Using dconf

VK4PK - gsettings API's

1. Install dconf tools
2. Using dconf
3. Create a GTerminal profile archive
4. Load a GTerminal profile

Create a GTerminal profile archive

These scripts store the exported profile archive to the dvd shared drive.
The scripts can be found in ~/data/bin.
They must be run as the user. Not as root.

#!/bin/bash # gnome-term-load.sh - Load gnome terminal profiles # # This script stores the exported profile archive on the dvd shared drive. # FILE=/nfs/mnt/dvd/tmp/gnome-terminal.dconf touch $FILE if [ -w "$FILE" ] then dconf dump /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/ > $FILE else echo "$0 - cannot write to $FILE" exit 1 fi echo "Gnome Terminal Profiles have been archived to $FILE."

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Load a GTerminal profile

These scripts reads the exported profile archive from the dvd shared drive. DO NOT run this on the same workstation or more than once on anothe workstation or you will end up with multiple duplicate terminal profiles.

#!/bin/bash # gnome-term-load.sh - Load gnome terminal profiles # # These scripts reads the exported profile archive stored on the dvd shared drive. # DO NOT run this on the same workstation or more than once on anothe workstation # or you will end up with multiple duplicate terminal profiles # FILE=/nfs/mnt/dvd/tmp/gnome-terminal.dconf touch $FILE if [ -r "$FILE" ] then dconf load /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/< $FILE else echo "$0 - cannot read to $FILE" exit 1 fi echo "The Gnome Terminal Profiles have been loaded from $FILE." echo Check gterm to confirm successful loading.

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VK4PK - gsettings API's

1. Install dconf tools
2. Using dconf
3. Create a GTerminal profile archive
4. Load a GTerminal profile