Disabling thumbnails in Nautilus
ST
smntov at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 09:55:11 UTC 2013
Hi,
bellow are the steps I undertook to try to disable thumbnails in
Nautilus ( following instruction mentioned here:
https://wiki.gnome.org/dconf/SystemAdministrators ) . It didn't help.
(I'm on Debian Wheezy, which seemingly has no /etc/dconf by default):
- mkdir -p /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks
- nano /etc/dconf/db/local.d/settings
# /etc/dconf/db/local.d/settings
# prevent showing thumbnails
[org.gnome.nautilus.preferences]
show-image-thumbnails="never"
- nano /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/settings
# prevent changes to showing thumbnails setting
org.gnome.nautilus.preferences.show-image-thumbnails
- mkdir /etc/dconf/profile
- nano /etc/dconf/profile/local
system-db:local
- export DCONF_PROFILE=/etc/dconf/profile
- dconf update
What's wrong here?
I also tried to disable it using dconf-editor (both as root and as
regular user) and I was not able to change the setting from 'local-only'
to 'never' it looked like it was locked.
I also tried gsettings:
# gsettings get org.gnome.nautilus.preferences show-image-thumbnails
# 'local-only'
# gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences show-image-thumbnails
"never"
** (process:5834): WARNING **: The connection is closed
** (process:5834): WARNING **: The connection is closed
PS:
I didn't reboot. Do I need to reboot in order for the new settings to
take effect?
I found several dconf files but it doesn't look like they contain any
lock of org.gnome.nautilus.preferences.show-image-thumbnails and
adding
[org.gnome.nautilus.preferences]
show-image-thumbnails="never"
to them didn't help either. Here are they:
/var/lib/gdm3/.cache/dconf
/var/lib/gdm3/.cache/dconf/user
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/profile
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db/gdm
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db/gdm.d
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db/gdm.d/00-upstream-settings
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db/gdm.d/10-desktop-base-settings
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db/gdm.d/90-debian-settings
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db/gdm.d/locks
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/db/gdm.d/locks/00-upstream-settings-locks
/var/lib/gdm3/dconf/profile/gdm
and
/usr/share/gdm/dconf
/usr/share/gdm/dconf-profile
/usr/share/gdm/dconf/00-upstream-settings
/usr/share/gdm/dconf/10-desktop-base-settings
/usr/share/gdm/dconf/locks
/usr/share/gdm/dconf/locks/00-upstream-settings-locks
It looks like dconf update ignores:
/etc/dconf/db/local.d/settings
because if I intentionally write wrong things there it doesn't
complain.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
ST
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