community.general.gconftool2 – Edit GNOME Configurations
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible
package.
It is not included in ansible-core
.
To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list
.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.gconftool2
.
Synopsis
This module allows for the manipulation of GNOME 2 Configuration via gconftool-2. Please see the gconftool-2(1) man pages for more details.
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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Specify a configuration source to use rather than the default path. See man gconftool-2(1) |
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Access the config database directly, bypassing server. If direct is specified then the config_source must be specified as well. See man gconftool-2(1) Choices:
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A GConf preference key is an element in the GConf repository that corresponds to an application preference. See man gconftool-2(1) |
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The action to take upon the key/value. Choices:
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Preference keys typically have simple values such as strings, integers, or lists of strings and integers. This is ignored if the state is “get”. See man gconftool-2(1) |
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The type of value being set. This is ignored if the state is “get”. Choices:
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Examples
- name: Change the widget font to "Serif 12"
community.general.gconftool2:
key: "/desktop/gnome/interface/font_name"
value_type: "string"
value: "Serif 12"
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key |
Description |
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The key specified in the module parameters Returned: success Sample: “/desktop/gnome/interface/font_name” |
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The value of the preference key after executing the module Returned: success Sample: “Serif 12” |
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The type of the value that was changed Returned: success Sample: “string” |
Authors
Kenneth D. Evensen (@kevensen)