watch-xfce-xfconf 1.0.2

A command-line tool that can help you to configure XFCE 4 programmatically

watch-xfce-xfconf - Configure XFCE programmatically!

The command-line tool watch-xfce-xfconf will allow you to watch and display the xfconf-query commands of all the XFCE 4 / Xfconf settings that are being modified by XFCE programs like xfce4-settings-manager, thunar, catfish, ristretto...

You can then add the xfconf-query commands to a Shell script that you can use to configure XFCE 4 programmatically.

Configuring XFCE 4 programmatically is useful if you want to have the same XFCE 4 settings on several computers.

Author

• James Cherti

Usage

Install the pip package from Github:

sudo pip install watch-xfce-xfconf

Run xfce4-settings-manager in the background:

xfce4-settings-manager &

Execute watch-xfce-xfconf:

watch-xfce-xfconf

Requirements

Python 3 requirements:

• psutil
• lxml
• mypy

Features

• Parse the XML files that are in the directory: "~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/",
• Monitor changes in XFCE 4 settings / Xfconf,
• Display xfconf-query commands,
• Supported Xfconf types: uint, int, string, bool, array, double.

Links

• The GitHub repository of 'watch-xfce-xfconf': https://github.com/jamescherti/watch-xfce-xfconf/
• More information about Xfconf: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.6/general-info/