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I was using this snippet of code (shell script) to interact with the Gnome Terminal profile on 16.04 and it worked fine

profile=$(gsettings get org.gnome.Terminal.ProfilesList default)
profile=${profile:1:-1} # remove leading and trailing single quotes
org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:${profile}/ \
background-transparency-percent

I then updated the system by installing 16.04.1 now when I run the above commands, either by a script or by on a command-line gsettings just returns its "usage" message:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:${profile}/
Usage: gsettings [--schemadir SCHEMADIR] get SCHEMA[:PATH] KEY ...

What do I need to do to get this command working again?

the_velour_fog
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1 Answers1

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You omitted the key name, like background-transparency-percent:

gsettings get org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:${profile}/ background-transparency-percent
Florian Diesch
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  • ah thanks, interestingly, I did try the command with the `background-transparency-percent key (you can see in the first section of code I pasted). Your answer prompted me to try it again though, and it solved the issue, however I think what possibly happened was that the line continuation "" char may have had spaces and not a "\n" after it, maybe causing the key to be ignored by the shell? – the_velour_fog Aug 06 '16 at 12:28