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XDG-SETTINGS(1)        DragonFly General Commands Manual       XDG-SETTINGS(1)


NAME

     xdg-settings - get various settings from the desktop environment


SYNOPSIS

     xdg-settings get | check | set -property [-subproperty] [-value]
     xdg-settings --help | --list | --manual | --version


DESCRIPTION

     xdg-settings gets various settings from the desktop environment.  For
     instance, desktop environments often provide proxy configuration and
     default web browser settings.  Using xdg-settings these parameters can be
     extracted for use by applications that do not use the desktop
     environment's libraries (which would use the settings natively).

     xdg-settings is for use inside a desktop session only.  It is not
     recommended to use xdg-settings as root.


OPTIONS

     --help  Show command synopsis.

     --list  List all properties xdg-settings knows about.

     --manual
             Show this manual page.

     --version
             Show the xdg-utils version information.


PROPERTIES

     When using xdg-settings to get, check or set a desktop setting,
     properties and possibly sub-properties are used to specify the setting to
     be changed.

     Some properties (such as default-web-browser) fully describe the setting
     to be changed.  Other properties (such as default-url-scheme-handler)
     require more information (in this case the actual scheme to set the
     default handler for) which must be provided in a sub-property.


EXIT CODES

     An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates
     failure.  The following failure codes can be returned:

     -1      Error in command line syntax.

     -2      One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.

     -3      A required tool could not be found.

     -4      The action failed.


SEE ALSO

     xdg-mime(1), xdg-open(1), MIME applications associations specification:
     http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-apps-spec/


EXAMPLES

     Get the desktop file name of the current default web browser

             xdg-settings get default-web-browser

     Check whether the default web browser is firefox.desktop, which can be
     false even if "get default-web-browser" says that is the current value
     (if only some of the underlying settings actually reflect that value)

             xdg-settings check default-web-browser firefox.desktop

     Set the default web browser to google-chrome.desktop

             xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop

     Set the default mailto URL scheme handler to be evolution.desktop

             xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto evolution.desktop


AUTHORS

     xdg-settings Manual

     Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Mike Mammarella <mdm@google.com> xdg-utils 1.1.0

DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT       April 18, 2024       DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT

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