ansible-gsetting

Ansible module for setting GSettings entries.

See also ansible-dconf.

Installation

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jistr/ansible-gsetting/master/gsetting.py > ~/ansible_dir/library/gsetting

Usage examples

- name: do not remember mount password
  gsetting:
    user: jistr
    settings:
      org.gnome.shell.remember-mount-password: false
      org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings.panel-main-menu: "@as []"
      org.gnome.nautilus.preferences.default-folder-viewer: "'list-view'"

If you want to run Ansible as the user you want to adjust settings for, you should omit the user parameter:

- name: shortcut panel-main-menu
  gsetting:
    settings:
      org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings.panel-main-menu: "@as []"

Be careful with string values, which should be passed into GSetting single-quoted. You'll need to quote the value twice in YAML:

- name: nautilus use list view
  gsetting:
    user: jistr
    settings:
      org.gnome.nautilus.preferences.default-folder-viewer: "'list-view'"

- name: nautilus list view columns
  gsetting:
    user: jistr
    settings:
      org.gnome.nautilus.list-view.default-visible-columns: "['name', 'size', 'date_modified', 'permissions', 'owner', 'group']"