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Note: This page should be titled gconf-editor (all lowercase). It is Gconf-editor due to a technical limitation of Mediawiki.

Contents 1 gconf-editor 2 tips 3 basic usage 4 see also

gconf-editor

gconf-editor is a configuration editor for the gnome window manager. It is somewhat reminiscent of regedit.exe from M$.

You can launch gconf-editor from the command line with:

ggeller@mckinley:~$ gconf-editor

tips

gconf-editor is installed by default on Linux Mint. You may have to install it yourself on other distributions.

basic usage

If you are an emacs user, you want the other gnome applications such as firefox to use the emacs key bindings. Use gconf-editor to set the /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme to Emacs.

This is what you see when you start gconf-editor.

Drill down to /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme and set it to Emacs.

The change will take effect when you (re)start firefox.

see also