This chapter lists several preferences whose settings you can change to improve the performance of the GNOME desktop. You can use the gconftool-2 command to set values for preferences for users. The example commands in this chapter show how to set values in the user configuration source.

You can also use the --direct and --config-source options to set mandatory values or default values for preferences. You can also use the gconftool-2 command in a script to set the values of many preferences. For more information on the gconftool-2 command and the options that are available with the command, see Using GConf.