How to use the command line to change GTK settings easily.

The settings used by the file chooser in MATE or Gnome can be changed easily with the command line. The gsettings utility makes this easy. This example will alter the Firefox file chooser, it will have directories listed first, in descending order, sorted by date modified. gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-column ‘modified’ gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-order … Read more