Friday, June 13, 2014

GNOME Configuration Editor

The GNOME Configuration Editor is an important tool.
But at the same time it's a danger one if not properly used.
It resembles the Windows Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER.


To make sure that GNOME Configuration Editor is installed:

$ pkg info -r gconf-editor
          Name: gnome/config/gconf/gconf-editor
       Summary: GNOME configuration database editor
      Category: Applications/Configuration and Preferences
         State: Installed
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 2.30.0
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.175.1.0.0.18.0
Packaging Date: June 11, 2012 10:24:12 PM
          Size: 1.52 MB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/gnome/config/gconf/gconf-editor@...


It won't appear anywhere on the GNOME desktop.
Naturally it can be started from the shell as most applications.
But I prefer to use the GNOME Run Application invoked by Alt + F2.