Gconf-editor is a discontinued utility for the GNOME desktop environment used to maintain the old and now discontinued GNOME registry

gconf GConf was a system used by the GNOME desktop environment for storing configuration settings for the desktop and applications. It is similar to the Windows Registry. It was deprecated as part of the GNOME 3 transition. Migration to its replacemen ...

. Gconf-editor gives users the ability to access settings stored in the

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-based

GConf GConf was a system used by the GNOME desktop environment for storing configuration settings for the desktop and applications. It is similar to the Windows Registry. It was deprecated as part of the GNOME 3 transition. Migration to its replacemen ...

configuration

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or registry. It is used primarily by developers to debug

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, or by

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s to edit hidden and complex settings. It

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the values from the GConf database and presents them in an interface similar to Microsoft Windows'

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editor. Other gconf tools have also appeared, such as Gconfpref by

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. There are also patches for popular applications, which add the ability to change the hidden options from within the application itself, avoiding the need for gconf-editor. There is also the dconf-editor for the dconf; dconf has replaced Gconf.

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GConf configuration system
GNOME obsolete {{GNOME-stub