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dotfiles/.config/gnome-settings/README.md
Alexander Hess 86cce2d9cf
 Remove the forge "unfocused-border" patch 
The patch rewrote forge's window.js with `sed`/`awk` anchored on
exact upstream lines, making it the most fragile piece of the
repository, for a purely cosmetic hairline on unfocused windows.

This also simplifies a future migration away from forge.
2026-10-06 13:36:43 +02:00

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GNOME Settings

This folder contains my GNOME settings split into several *.ini files by logical group.

Machine-specific overrides may live in local/*.ini and are loaded last. See this README.md for details and examples.

All paths inside the files are absolute, anchored at the root of dconf. Therefore, they must always be loaded anchored at the root as well.

The files are machine independent and use /home/user as a placeholder, which must be rewritten to the real home directory before loading:

sed "s|/home/user|$HOME|g" <file> | dconf load /

gnome-restore automates this upon every login (via the gnome-restore.service systemd user unit).

Process:

  1. Back up the current dconf state into ~/.local/state/gnome-settings-backups/
  2. On a fresh session, remove the temporary background state written by randomize-background
  3. Reset all managed sub-trees, so that keys removed from the *.ini files do not linger in the live state
  4. Patch a broken backup path in the installed forge extension (theme.js)
  5. Ensure the enabled GNOME extensions' schemas are imported
  6. Load every *.ini here, then every local/*.ini

dconf-load captures step 6 as an independent utility, or for just one file given as an argument, which is handy while iterating on a single *.ini:

dconf-load key-bindings.ini

It neither backs up nor resets anything, so keys removed from the *.ini files stay active until the next gnome-restore. Its purpose is to help during development of the *.ini files.

dconf-verify lists keys diverging between the live state and the *.ini files, and can be used to find live keys worth adopting.

Color Palette

COLORS.md is an untracked, human-readable overview of the palette, written by color-palette.