mate-conf-editor port?

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 22:28:10 UTC 2015


Thanks, Koop. That was it. I'd tried gconf-editor which almost seemed to
work, but not really. dconf-editor seems liek the right tool.

Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Koop Mast <kwm at rainbow-runner.nl> wrote:

> On 29-7-2015 23:16, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > On my Mint Linux system I make periodic use of the mate-conf-editor to
> > adjust settings someone felt were not ones the typical user would want to
> > adjust. It was dangerous, but very handy for those little tweaks that
> make
> > the desktop work JUST the way you like.
> >
> > I can't find  port of this tool for FreeBSD. Is it available? If not, I
> may
> > look into porting it myself, though I have not done a port since the
> major
> > re-work of the port system, and porting some of the Gnome2 stuff was
> > tricky, especially for someone who has not done serious programming in
> > about two decades. It would be really nice if someone has already done
> work
> > on it.
> > --
>
> I found it but it seems which seems abandon.
> https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-conf-editor .
> Since mate is using glib schema's you could use dconf-editor which only
> needs gtk30 as extra depends.
>
> -Koop
>


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