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Effect of sudo on the performance of `gsettings set` command
I wrote the following script to enable certain GNOME shell extensions. I noticed that this script will return different behaviours when it is executed as "sudo" as compared to "ordinary user". As...
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dconf settings are stored in a database on a per-user basis. When you run a command with sudo, the $USER is root, not anymore your own user. gsettings will therefore act on the dconf database of the...
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