community.general.gconftool2_info module – Retrieve GConf configurations

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.gconftool2_info.

New in community.general 5.1.0

Synopsis

  • This module allows retrieving application preferences from the GConf database, with the help of gconftool-2.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

key

string / required

The key name for an element in the GConf database.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

This action does not modify state.

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: N/A

This action does not modify state.

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • See man gconftool-2(1) for more details.

See Also

See also

gconf repository (archived)

Git repository for the project. It is an archived project, so the repository is read-only.

Examples

- name: Get value for a certain key in the database.
  community.general.gconftool2_info:
    key: /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
  register: result

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

value

string

The value of the property.

Returned: success

Sample: "Monospace 10"

Authors

  • Alexei Znamensky (@russoz)