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- Export channel settings, filtering on user-provided root, to JSON files.
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- Import channel settings from those JSON files.
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- Imported settings are immediately applied to your session.
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- Replace entire channel setting trees, or just update with provided values.
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- JSON files with predictable formatting for easy versioning.
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- JSON files have a predictable formatting for easy versioning.
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@ -47,14 +48,14 @@ computers.
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I got frustrated with the way Xfconf stored settings on disk: its XML files have
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unpredictable tag sorting and some volatile values, and Xfconf does not read
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those settings unless you log back-in, and this is if you don't overwrite them
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those settings unless you log back in, and this is if you don't overwrite them
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in the process. This makes diffing modifications cumbersome, especially when
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trying to share parts of my settings in a Git repository. I needed a way to dump
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and restore only some parts of my settings.
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Xfconf is the daemon storing and providing most Xfce configuration values,
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called properties. Sadly, it is not possible to manipulate these values without
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building against libxfconf, which itself uses Glib, which I simply don't want
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building against libxfconf, which itself uses Glib, which I simply don't know
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and don't want to use, either as a C program or using FFI. The lazy way is to
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use xion-query, a modified build of the xfconf-query CLI tool.
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### Get xion-query
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Builds of xion-query will be available on my [Xfconf fork][xfconf-fork] soon,
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but it already has building instructions (optional Docker build).
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Go to my [Xfconf fork](https://github.com/Dece/xfconf/releases/) to get a build
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or find instructions on how to build it.
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If you want to build it manually, checkout the tags named "xion-<VERSION>". It
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is possible to build xion-query with Docker if you don't want to mess around
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finding the various dependencies.
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Once you have your build, name it `xion-query`, make it executable and place it
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somewhere in your path, e.g. in `/usr/local/bin/`.
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### Get xion
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Right now Xion is not packaged, just download the repo.
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Right now Xion is not packaged, just download the repo, this is on the todolist.
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