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I'm trying to change a setting of a gnome shell extension with a bash command. The settings controls at what monitor and at which side of the screen the dock appears, which is part of the 'dash to dock' shell extension. I've tried:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock preferred-monitor 2

this gives the error message:

No such schema 'org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock'

As indeed, none of the settings values of the shell extension entry in dconf have 'schemas'.

How can I change the values which do not have a schema in dconf, what command do I use? Ofcourse I can change them with the gui in dconf or with the settings menu of the extension, but that's not what I want.

Odin Mugabe
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  • Welcome to AskUbuntu! May I be so bold as to ask why you don't want a solution that you know works? – Elder Geek Mar 22 '17 at 20:43
  • sure, I'm making a script that sets up my desktop after I connected my monitors. See this question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/894109/possibility-to-save-the-current-resolution-wallpaper-and-desktop-arrangement-sehttp://askubuntu.com/questions/894109/possibility-to-save-the-current-resolution-wallpaper-and-desktop-arrangement-se If I can add a command that changes this setting as well, the scipt does everything I need. – Odin Mugabe Mar 22 '17 at 21:25
  • http://askubuntu.com/questions/894109/possibility-to-save-the-current-resolution-wallpaper-and-desktop-arrangement-se – Odin Mugabe Mar 22 '17 at 21:32
  • Related: http://askubuntu.com/questions/863/change-primary-monitor – Elder Geek Mar 22 '17 at 21:40
  • It's not really related to this question. I've already added the --primary flag to the xrandr command though, maybe you meant that. But lets keep the topic on changing this dconf value. – Odin Mugabe Mar 22 '17 at 22:01
  • Sorry I couldn't be more helpful... – Elder Geek Mar 22 '17 at 22:04
  • I don't have the key, but dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/dash-to-dock 2 should do. Can't test it though, so please try. Note that if a gsettings option exists, it is preferred. gsettings is higher level has a consistency check. It is the cli frontend to dconf. – Jacob Vlijm Mar 23 '17 at 06:24
  • It works! thanks. This was the command I used: dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/dash-to-dock/preferred-monitor 2

    At first it didn't work for me but that's because I tried running it as root.

     – Odin Mugabe Mar 24 '17 at 13:08
  • dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/dash-to-dock/preferred-monitor 2 – Odin Mugabe Mar 24 '17 at 13:21

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