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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
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type="topic" style="task"
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<link type="guide" xref="sundry" />
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<link type="seealso" xref="dconf-custom-default-values" />
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<link type="seealso" xref="dconf" />
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<revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-25" status="draft"/>
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<credit type="author copyright">
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<name>Ryan Lortie</name>
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<email>desrt@desrt.ca</email>
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<credit type="editor">
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<name>Jana Švárová</name>
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<email>jana.svarova@gmail.com</email>
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<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
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<desc>This page gives detailed information about profile selection.</desc>
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<title>Select a profile</title>
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<p>On startup, <sys>dconf</sys> consults the DCONF_PROFILE environment
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variable. If set, <sys>dconf</sys> attempts to open the named profile and
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aborts if that fails. If the environment variable is not set,
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<sys>dconf</sys> attempts to open the profile named "user". If that
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fails, it will fall back to an internal hard-wired configuration.</p>
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<p>Each line in a profile specifies one <sys>dconf</sys> database. The first
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line indicates the database used to write changes, and the remaining lines
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indicate read-only databases. Here is an example:</p>
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<note style="important">
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<p>The <sys>dconf</sys> profile for a session is determined at login, so users
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will have to log out and log in to apply a new <sys>dconf</sys> user profile
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