XDG-SETTINGS(1)

  .SH "NAME" xdg-settings - get various settings from the desktop environment
  .SH "SYNOPSIS"
    .HP u
      xdg-settings
       {
         | get
         | check
         | set
      }
       {
    property
      }
       [
        subproperty
      ]
       [
    value
      ]

    .HP u
      xdg-settings
       {
         | --help
         | --list
         | --manual
         | --version
      }

  .SH "DESCRIPTION"

    .PP 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).
    .PP xdg-settings is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not recommended to use xdg-settings as root.

  .SH "OPTIONS"

      .PP --help

              Show command synopsis.

          .RE
          .PP --list

                  List all properties xdg-settings knows about.

              .RE
              .PP --manual

                      Show this manual page.

                  .RE
                  .PP --version

                          Show the xdg-utils version information.

                      .RE

                  .SH "PROPERTIES"

                    .PP When using xdg-settings to get, check or set a desktop setting, properties and possibly sub-properties are used to specify the setting to be changed.
                    .PP Some properties (such as default-web-browser) fully describe the setting to be changed. Other properties (such as default-url-scheme-handler) require more information (in this case the actual scheme to set the default handler for) which must be provided in a sub-property.

                  .SH "EXIT CODES"

                    .PP An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:

                      .PP 1

                              Error in command line syntax.

                          .RE
                          .PP 2

                                  One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.

                              .RE
                              .PP 3

                                      A required tool could not be found.

                                  .RE
                                  .PP 4

                                          The action failed.

                                      .RE

                                  .SH "SEE ALSO"

                                    .PP xdg-mime(1), xdg-open(1), MIME applications associations specification[1]

                                  .SH "EXAMPLES"

                                    .PP Get the desktop file name of the current default web browser

                                            xdg-settings get default-web-browser

                                    .PP 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

                                    .PP Set the default web browser to google-chrome.desktop

                                            xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop

                                    .PP Set the default mailto URL scheme handler to be evolution.desktop

                                            xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto evolution.desktop

AUTHOR

Mike Mammarella
    Author.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009-2011

NOTES

1.  MIME applications associations specification
    http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-apps-spec/