dconf profiles not applying

Posted by agent-squirrel@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 4 comments

Hi everyone. Distro: Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop DE: Gnome I am attempting to set some system-wide parameters for all users including new users with the dconf tool. Essentially just a wallpaper and favourites layout so far but neither apply when added to a profile, they do work if the user performs `dconf write` which writes to the user's dconf db. Here is the layout and contents of the files: ├── db │   ├── ibus │   ├── ibus.d │   ├── local │   └── local.d └── profile ├── ibus └── local profile/local: user-db:user system-db:local db/local.d/00-UTAS-SOE [org/gnome/desktop/background] picture-uri='file:///usr/local/utas/images/wallpapers/Wallpaper2022.jpg' picture-uri-dark='file:///usr/local/utas/images/wallpapers/Wallpaper2022.jpg' [org/gnome/shell] favorite-apps = ['google-chrome.desktop', 'firefox_firefox.desktop', 'microsoft-edge.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'org.gnome.Terminal.desktop', 'teams.desktop', 'Zoom.desktop'] Running `sudo dconf update` results in no changes and reading the value of any of these nodes back with `dconf read` shows no output. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Cheers