Here is a nice article which tells about the gconftool. Using gconftool you can configure your gnome desktop environment by giving commands in the terminal. Let’s start about learning about gconftool
GConf is a configuration data storage mechanism scheduled to ship with GNOME 2.0. GConf does work without GNOME however; it can be used with plain GTK+, Xlib, KDE, [...]
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