XSETTINGSD(1) General Commands Manual XSETTINGSD(1)

xsettingsd - provides settings to X11 applications

xsettingsd [options]

xsettingsd is a daemon that implements the XSETTINGS specification. The typical invocation is from a user's ~/.xsession file.

It is intended to be small, fast, and minimally dependent on other libraries. It can serve as an alternative to gnome-settings-daemon for users who are not using the GNOME desktop environment but who still run GTK+ applications and want to configure things such as themes, font antialiasing/hinting, and UI sound effects.

Additional documentation is available at the project's website: https://codeberg.org/derat/xsettingsd

Load settings from FILE (default is ~/.xsettingsd).
Display a help message and exit.
Use the X screen numbered SCREEN (default of -1 means all screens).

If a path is not specified by -c or --config, xsettingsd checks the following locations for a readable configuration file:

~/.xsettingsd
~/.config/xsettingsd/xsettingsd.conf (base directory overridable via $XDG_CONFIG_HOME)
/etc/xsettingsd/xsettingsd.conf (base directories overridable via $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS)

Running dump_xsettings(1) while another XSETTINGS daemon such as gnome-settings-daemon is already running will print your current settings in xsettingsd's configuration file format.

Here is a short example configuration file:

Net/ThemeName "Human"
Xft/Antialias 1
Xft/DPI 100352
Xft/HintStyle "hintfull"
Xft/Hinting 1
Xft/RGBA "none"
Xft/lcdfilter "none"

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dump_xsettings(1)

xsettingsd was written by Daniel Erat <dan@erat.org>.