gsettings

Practical reference for the gsettings command used to list, read, and modify GNOME desktop settings from the command line, including common examples for Gedit preferences

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Check list

gsettings list-recursively

List relocatable schemas

gsettings list-relocatable-schemas

List keys in a schema

gsettings list-keys

List children of a schema

gsettings list-children

List keys and values, recursively

gsettings list-recursively

Queries the range of a key

gsettings range

Queries the description of a key

gsettings describe

Get the value of a key

gsettings get

Set the value of a key

gsettings set

Reset the value of a key

gsettings reset

Reset all values in a given schema

gsettings reset-recursively

Check if a key is writable

gsettings writable

Watch for changes

gsettings monitor

Examples of how to change settings with gsettings

Enable current line highlighting in Gedit

gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor highlight-current-line true

Set Gedit color scheme to cobalt

gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor scheme 'cobalt'

Disable use of the default editor font

gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor use-default-font false

Set a custom editor font in Gedit

gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor editor-font 'Cantarell Regular 12'