xdg-settings Manual

2009
Mike Mammarella

    mdm@google.com

xdg-settings 1
xdg-settings get various settings from the desktop environment
`xdg-settings` `get` `check` `set` `property` `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 manualpage.

`--version`

  Show the xdg-utils version information.

## 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.

## 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