Silverblue: customizing gsettings for flatpak gnome-text-editor

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Hello there

On fedora workstation, one can enable vim-style keybindings in gnome-text-editor with the following command:

gsettings set org.gnome.TextEditor keybindings vim

This does not work on silverblue and has no effect:

❯ gsettings set org.gnome.TextEditor keybindings vim
No such schema “org.gnome.TextEditor”

So I tried shelling into the text editor sandbox, but that was not effective either

❯ flatpak enter org.gnome.TextEditor bash
bash-5.2$ gsettings set org.gnome.TextEditor keybindings vim
No such schema ?org.gnome.TextEditor?

How can I edit the settings for this sandboxed app? Preferably, by having the flatpak use my global dconf settings db

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You’ll probably want to ask that to the upstream developers directly: Issues · GNOME / gnome-text-editor · GitLab

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Try using: flatpak run --command=/bin/bash org.gnome.TextEditor

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That did it, thanks.

❯ flatpak run --command=/bin/bash org.gnome.TextEditor
bash: starship: command not found
[📦 org.gnome.TextEditor ~]$ gsettings set org.gnome.TextEditor keybindings vim
[📦 org.gnome.TextEditor ~]$ 
exit
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For anyone else interested, this is how you can automatically run multiple commands inside the sandbox. Once the commands are run, it automatically exits the sandbox.

This is part of a script I have to set up Gnome.

echo "(
	gsettings set org.gnome.TextEditor show-line-numbers true
	gsettings set org.gnome.TextEditor spellcheck false
	gsettings set org.gnome.TextEditor restore-session false
)" | flatpak run --command=sh org.gnome.TextEditor
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This is an alternate way of editing flatpak application settings

Flatpak application settings file for the TextEditor is located at:
~/.var/app/org.gnome.TextEditor/config/glib-2.0/settings/keyfile

In OP’s case, he would add

  • keybindings=vim

to the keyfile location above.

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