xfconf api: how to retrieve list of entries in some path

Brian Tarricone brian at tarricone.org
Tue Nov 1 03:30:11 CET 2022


On Sat, Oct 29, 2022, at 11:01, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a way to retrieve the names of all entries under certain
> path (similar to listing a directory in a filesystem) - this shall only
> give the names of the entries directly under the given path, but not
> their sub entries.
>
> [...]
>
> I've tried xfconf_channel_get_properties(), but that doesn't work as I
> expected: it ignores entries of type "empty" (but shows "array"s), and
> also lists all the sub-entries.

Hmm, that should indeed be the proper way to do it, so I would say that if it doesn't, then that's a bug that needs to be fixed :(

     -brian


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