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=How to change your Gramps setting via GNOME=

GNOME provides a central system called GConf for storing user preferences on behalf of individual applications. Also Gramps uses the GConf API. The GConf database is structured like a filesystem, containing keys. Those keys are organized into a tree hierarchy. Each key can have a name and a value. GConf has several tools. There is a GUI that brings you to the '''Configuration Editor'''. This GUI does not appear by default in an Ubuntu Applications Menu. You can edit the Application menu and add it. Got to {{man menu|Applications -> Accessories -> Alacarte Menu Editor -> System Tools}} and turn on the Configuration Editor.

See the [https://gramps-project.org/gramps-manual/2.2/en/ch04.html Chapter 4. '''Settings'''] and [https://gramps-project.org/gramps-manual/2.2/en/ch04s03.html '''Advanced Manipulations of Settings'''] sections of the [[User_manual_translations#Gramps_2.2.x_Manual|Gramps version 2.2 manual]].

If you use the GNOME desktop and you run

<code>sudo gconf-editor</code>

in a terminal and give your root password, you will get a list of all your GNOME settings. If you look in '''apps''' you will find '''gramps'''.

When you open Configuration Editor, you'll notice that there is no {{man button|Save}} button. All changes are immediate and take care with your changes!
The list has following sub-items:

*behavior

*interface

*paths

* [https://gramps-project.org/gramps-manual/2.2/en/ch04.html#gramps-prefs preferences] 

*researcher

For easy reference you can bookmark the gramps position so you do not need to scroll down the complete list.

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