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Previously guake used to have its preferences stored in 

~/.gconf/apps/guake/general

but with move to gtk3 it has moved to gsettings and dconf . While dconf-editor does show me the preferences with the toggle switch I'm unable to figure out where it actually stays.

Jeff Schaller
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shirish
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    Are you asking about the dconf database file? `~/.config/dconf/user`? – muru Oct 09 '18 at 06:35
  • wow, thank you , saw that it's some sort of binary file. `~/.config/dconf$ file user user: GVariant Database file, version 0` – shirish Oct 09 '18 at 10:37

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A direct way:

# save settings
guake --save-preferences ~/Downloads/guake_prefs

# load settings
guake --restore-preferences ~/Downloads/guake_prefs

Another way my experience, on Ubuntu 20.04,

# save the config file
dconf save /apps/guake/ > Downloads/guake.dconf

# load
dconf load /apps/guake/ < Downloads/guake.dconf

You can also install dconf-editor for an UI editor.

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y dconf-editor

Then you open dconf Editor and choose the config options of guake at /apps/guake/.

Anh-Thi DINH
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  • And the tab titles are stored in `/home//.config/guake/session.json` (at least on Ubuntu 22.04), which come into effect once you disable the `use_vte_titles` option: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/45670/34492 – Mitch Dec 06 '22 at 09:44
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Here's the command to dump just the guake-related configuration:

dconf dump /apps/guake/

The output should look something like this:

[general]
prompt-on-quit=true
window-height=46
mouse-display=true
window-width=100
max-tab-name-length=100
window-losefocus=true
quick-open-enable=false
history-size=1000
open-tab-cwd=true
window-tabbar=true
window-halignment=0
quick-open-command-line='gvim %(file_path)s'
compat-delete='delete-sequence'
scroll-keystroke=true
abbreviate-tab-names=true
display-n=0
use-audible-bell=false
use-default-font=true
scroll-output=true
use-scrollbar=true
use-trayicon=true
set-window-title=true
use-popup=true
window-refocus=false
use-vte-titles=true

[keybindings/global]
show-hide='F12'

[style]
cursor-shape=0
cursor-blink-mode=2

[style/background]
transparency=100

[style/font]
allow-bold=true
palette='#000000000000:#999900000000:#0000a6a60000:#999999990000:#00000000b2b2:#b2b20000b2b2:#0000a6a6b2b2:#bfbfbfbfbfbf:#666666666666:#e5e500000000:#0000d9d90000:#e5e5e5e50000:#00000000ffff:#e5e50000e5e5:#0000e5e5e5e5:#e5e5e5e5e5e5:#000000000000:#ffffffffdddd'
palette-name='Custom'

This can be saved to a file and loaded again later.

dconf dump /apps/guake/ > dconf-guake-dump.txt
# Later:
dconf load /apps/guake/ < dconf-guake-dump.txt
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