I used Unity Tweak Tool to make some changes and I wanted to find out what keys it used for the changes so I dumped the db to a file like this:
dconf dump / > altered_settings.ini
Then I reset everything back to the defaults and dumped the unmodified DB:
dconf dump / > default_settings.ini
and used diff to compare the two files like this:
diff -y --suppress-common-lines default_settings.ini altered_settings.ini
heres the results: Difference between two dconf files
I don't understnad the output. In some cases the columns line up properly so I can easily see what key was changed, in some cases they are misaligned by one row, and in some cases they don't line up at all. Heres a snippet:
panel-opacity=1.0 | background-color='#333333ff'
icon-size=48 | icon-size=34
backlight-mode=1 | launcher-hide-mode=0
launcher-opacity=0.66669999999999996 | backlight-mode=3
> launcher-opacity=1.0
In that example icon-size is aligned with the icon-size line from file two. But launcher opacity is aligned with backlight-mode, and the last line > launcher-opacity=1.0 is saying that launcher-opacity doesn't exist in file 1. So these results are unreliable. Is this a problem with diff itself, or could it be that there are some lines missing in each file so the columns get misaligned? Is there a better way to do this, to find out which keys have been changed? Also, with diff could I display the whole file in columns, and colour the columns that match one colour, and the columns that don't match another colour?
