extract gnome gconf settings from external partition

Question

Are there any files in /etc/ or /home/ where the gconf data is actually written to? How can I make these work on a new system (preferably in terminal)?

There are standard ways dumping/importing gconf settings in a working distribution; mine is dead now - I'd like to backup/restore the old settings.

Answer 1

If I understand the question you want to copy settings from old system to the new one. In my backup scripts I just copy ~/.gconf directory which store all the settings configurable with gconf-editor. That works for me.

There are other directories for settings of your GNOME desktop environment which you may want to copy:

• ~/.config - contains config files for applications (default location for the environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME).
• ~/.gnome2 - user-specific application data that is not stored in the GConf repository.
• ~/.local/share - default location for the environment variable XDG_DATA_HOME.
• ~/.fonts - fonts that you installed.
• ~/.nautilus - contains file manager data that is specific to the user. For example, this directory can contain the following:
  • Metadata for the directories with which the user works.
  • Nautilus emblems that the user adds.
  • Nautilus desktop images.
• ~/.themes - contains your (not system-wide) themes