On Sep 28, 2021, at 01:59, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@greshko.com> wrote:

Good luck with that.  I have no appetite for delving into the MATE database.  To me it seems
more trouble than it is worth for a one time "project".

The dconf database is pretty easy to examine using the ‘dconf’ tool. A lot of programs use dconf these days, so it is worth getting to know it. 

You can run `dconf dump / > /tmp/dconf-before.txt` and then run it again with a file to diff after you add/change things. It will tell you the dconf keys and values to edit. You can then set things with `dconf write KEY VALUE`. 

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Jonathan Billings