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I want to monitor file/files changes during the changing any settings. I can monitor changes by using dconf watch / but this command just monitoring path for settings and I want its file not schema path. Is there any tool/command to monitor file changes?
I only want /path/to/filename from result of monitoring.
For example I want to know which file changes after changing my brightness setting.
You can use the command line tool inotifywatch from the package inotify-tools.
If you want to monitor all files in you home directory for change, use this command:
inotifywatch -r $HOME
Probably the command will raise an error because the upper limit of watches is reached. You can change those with
sudo sh -c 'echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches'
(adjust the number accordingly)
