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:

1. Set one or more GNOME group policies.
2. Enable the “Enable GNOME group policies” master policy.
3. 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.

4. Run gconftool-2 or use dconf/gsettings and pipe it to grep 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