How does ~/.config/dconf/user get populated

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How does ~/.config/dconf/user get populated ?

If I delete it, it will come back at the next login. Where does it
get generated from? Specifically how do I change it ?
/etc/dconf/db/ibus.d/00-upstream-settings says make another file
with a higher prefix and run dconf update but that doesn’t seem to
change the one that gets stuffed into your home directory.

Ta

Mal

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This is most probably used by desktop software. So mentioning which DE you use might be helpful.

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I am using KDE but the settings I am interested in are for IBus,
the defaults that get generated appear to be wrong ( as in they
are always setting a US keyboard ). If you use dconf-editor or
change the Input Methods you can change them so they work
but that is on a per user basis.

Ta

Mal

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What do you have in
YaST > Hardware > System Keyboard Layout

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Note that there is a system keyboard setting and one for each desktop/user. Don’t get them confused. Remember the Linux is multi-user and one user may want to use one keyboard layout and an other user a different one then the system needs one defined also for system stuff.

You probably don’t want to mess with dconf unless you really understand what you do.

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Yast in hardware say UK English and in Locale also says UK English
KDE in System Settings Locale says System Country ( United Kingdom )
If the user has used the system when the machines were 13.1 their ~/.config/dconf/user
is correct -if they have never logged in before ( and there will be 300 odd
of them in September ) then when their ~/.config/dconf/user is created
it has a US keyboard layout and KDE ( via IBus ) uses that.
So far I have 3 nasty workarounds
1 - delete IBus
2 - copy a correct ‘user’ file from an old user into every new user
3- add a kxkbrc to /etc/kde4/share/config and live with the fact that the keyboard layout indicator says US
None of which are particularly nice but trying to get 300 kids to right click on the indicator and select preferences
etc etc is going to be like herding cats

Best wishes

Mal

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From observation of my 13.2 KDE systems:
They do not use dconf and gsettings (although there is a dependency by Network Manager for gsettings-schemas).
They do not have a ~/.config/dconf/
(Are you loading any Gnome/GTK software that requires gsettings/dconf ?)
Everything I do seems to work with dconf, gsettings-backend-dconf and libdconf1 rpms uninstalled.