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I made this post because I really like the design of GNOME, and although i'd like customizability, it is mostly enough for my everyday needs. But I want to understand why people may choose other desktop environments..or why you would/would'nt use GNOME.

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[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad to help! Just keep in mind that what you're doing there is dumping the entire dconf settings tree and applying it as is. That will include a lot of things you don't want/care about, including state data of certain applications. You should probably sift through the dump file and throw stuff out before loading it again, but I'm sure you'll figure it out.

I'll keep that in mind. The main thing is changing keyboard shortcuts—I like most of the defaults in GNOME. In theory, this should actually be easier to port over to new computers than Sway, because I only need to import one configuration dump.

I mean, I probably could have written a Makefile or something for my dotfiles repository but I'm lazy...