My Gnome Configuration Settings

I've installed Ubuntu on my netbook twice today (don't ask). Probably like the rest of you, part of installing Ubuntu involves going through and changing all of the moronic settings that Gnome comes with as default. This includes changing the default terminal background from white to black, changing font sizes, setting toolbars to "icon only", setting up hotkeys, etc.

It was getting a little annoying to do all the time, so I finally went through gconf-editor and found the settings I change, and wrote up a script to do all of them at once. Figured I'd post it here, not only so I can use it later, but so you can derive from it if you wish. It's pretty simple, just using the command line utility "gconftool". Here it is:

$ gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/metacity/general/action_double_click_titlebar toggle_shade
$ gconftool -s --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_style icons
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_font "Bitstream Vera Sans 9"
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/metacity/general/titlebar_font "Bitstream Vera Sans Bold 9"
$ gconftool -s --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/monospace_font_name "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 9"
$ gconftool -s --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/document_font_name "Bitstream Vera Sans 9"
$ gconftool -s --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name "Bitstream Vera Sans 9"
$ gconftool -s --type bool /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/allow_bold false
$ gconftool -s --type bool /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/use_theme_colors false
$ gconftool -s --type bool /apps/gnome-terminal/global/confirm_window_close false
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/foreground_color '#FFFFFFFFFFFF'
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/background_color '#000000000000'
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/palette "#000000000000:#AAAA00000000:#0000AAAA0000:#AAAA55550000:#00000000AAAA:#AAAA0000AAAA:#0000AAAAAAAA:#AAAAAAAAAAAA:#555555555555:#FFFF55555555:#5555FFFF5555:#FFFFFFFF5555:#55555555FFFF:#FFFF5555FFFF:#5555FFFFFFFF:#FFFFFFFFFFFF"
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/scrollbar_position hidden
$ gconftool -s --type bool /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_show_menubar false
$ gconftool -s --type int /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 4
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_1 "<Control>F1"
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_2 "<Control>F2"
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_3 "<Control>F3"
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_to_workspace_4 "<Control>F4"
$ gconftool -s --type string /apps/nautilus/icon_view/default_zoom_level small
$ gconftool -s --type bool /apps/nautilus/desktop/computer_icon_visible true
$ gconftool -s --type bool /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible true
$ gconftool -s --type bool /apps/nautilus/desktop/network_icon_visible true
$ gconftool -s --type bool /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible true

I'll probably keep editing this article and adding new things as I find them.