finding hard-to-find gnome3 settings and changing them

dconf annoyances

I see a few things in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.gschema.xml that aren't in Gnome-tweak-tool.

So I make a change and then do a find to see where the changes were made: .config/dconf/user -- which is parsed by dconf.

$ dconf dump / |grep -C1 raise
[org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences]
auto-raise=true

That can be changed on the command line.

$ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/auto-raise false
$ dconf dump / |grep -C1 raise
[org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences]
auto-raise=false

So you can browse the xml and then change the values at will for these guiless items. 
Most definitely a need to write a better perl/python tool to do this.

$ grep 'key name' /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.gschema.xml
    <key name="mouse-button-modifier" type="s">
    <key name="resize-with-right-button" type="b">
    <key name="button-layout" type="s">
    <key name="focus-mode" enum="org.gnome.desktop.GDesktopFocusMode">
    <key name="focus-new-windows"
    <key name="raise-on-click" type="b">
    <key name="action-double-click-titlebar"
    <key name="action-middle-click-titlebar"
    <key name="action-right-click-titlebar"
    <key name="auto-raise" type="b">
    <key name="auto-raise-delay" type="i">
    <key name="theme" type="s">
    <key name="titlebar-uses-system-font" type="b">
    <key name="titlebar-font" type="s">
    <key name="num-workspaces" type="i">
    <key name="audible-bell" type="b">
    <key name="visual-bell" type="b">
    <key name="visual-bell-type"
    <key name="disable-workarounds" type="b">
    <key name="workspace-names" type="as">