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Shell command: gsettings

Configuration tool for GSettings.
GSettings is a frontend to backends such as dconf or configuration files. Apparently, GSettings is also capable of modifying the Windows registry.
GSettings is a GLib implementation of DConf.

Usage and commands

Usage: 
gsettings --version
gsettings [--schemadir SCHEMADIR] COMMAND [ARGS…]

Commands

help Show this information
list-schemas List installed schemas
list-relocatable-schemas List relocatable schemas
list-keys List keys in a schema
list-children List children of a schema
list-recursively List keys and values, recursively
range Queries the range of a key
describe Queries the description of a key
get Get the value of a key
set Set the value of a key
reset Reset the value of a key
reset-recursively Reset all values in a given schema
writable Check if a key is writable
monitor Watch for changes
gsetting help COMMAND gets detailed help on a particular command.

Misc commands

Turn off screen locking

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 0
Alternatlively, turn off screen saver: 
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled false

Is there a shortcut to open the terminal?

gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys | grep -i terminal

See also

dconf-editor
Shell commands

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