Verifying GNOME policy settings
After setting GNOME policies, you can verify the settings on any managed Linux machine by using the gconftool-2
or dconf/gsettings
command.
To verify GNOME policy settings on Linux computers:
- Set one or more GNOME group policies.
- Enable the “Enable GNOME group policies” master policy.
- On a managed Linux computer, run
adgpupdate
to apply group policies with the updates you have made.The agent updates group policies at a regularly specified interval. Running
adgpupdate
applies the new policies immediately. -
Run
gconftool-2
or usedconf/gsettings
and pipe it togrep
to view specific settings; for example, to see the local GNOME setting for hidden files:[user1@qa1 ~]$gconftool-2 -R /desktop |grep -i hidden show_hidden_files = true
If you are using GNOME 2, you can run
gconftool-2 -R
to see all of your GNOME desktop settings. For example:[user1@qa1 ~]$gconftool-2 -R /desktop /desktop/gnome: /desktop/gnome/file_views: tabs_enable = true tabs_open_position = end show_hidden_files = true icon_theme = crux_teal show_backup_files = false /desktop/gnome/applications: /desktop/gnome/applications/component_viewer: exec = nautilus %s /desktop/gnome/applications/help_viewer: needs_term = false accepts_urls = true exec = nautilus
To see all system settings, you can run:
gconftool-2 -R /system
or all desktop gnome application settings:
gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/applications