gnome-config-listener is a utility that monitors GConf — the GNOME configuration system — and prints preference changes to the terminal as they happen. It's a developer and sysadmin tool for understanding which GConf keys change when you toggle a GNOME preference, move a window, or adjust application settings.

I was regularly frustrated when I moved to new Linux computers and wanted to reconfigure them to match my existing computers, so I developed this application to echo the changes so I could add the settings to my bashrc file.

Using this tool, and fiddling around in the control panel, you can discover configuration names & values you like and write shell scripts to save your preferences.

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