community.general.gconftool2_info module – Retrieve GConf configurations
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.4).
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_info
.
New in community.general 5.1.0
Synopsis
This module allows retrieving application preferences from the GConf database, with the help of
gconftool-2
.
Aliases: system.gconftool2_info
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
---|---|
The key name for an element in the GConf database. |
Attributes
Attribute |
Support |
Description |
---|---|---|
Support: full This action does not modify state. |
Can run in |
|
Support: N/A This action does not modify state. |
Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in |
Notes
Note
See man gconftool-2(1) for more details.
See Also
See also
- gconf repository (archived)
Git repository for the project. It is an archived project, so the repository is read-only.
Examples
- name: Get value for a certain key in the database.
community.general.gconftool2_info:
key: /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
register: result
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key |
Description |
---|---|
The value of the property. Returned: success Sample: |