[Ekiga-list] I am trying to change the device but I am not succeed.

[Damien Sandras]

Le mercredi 05 décembre 2007 à 14:30 -0200, Antonio Carlos Ribeiro
Nogueira a écrit :
> Hi, I am trying to change the device of video of my ekiga at home from 
> my computer at University. I already done it succesfully times ago but 
> now I am not being succeed. I don't know what is happening.
> What I am doing is:
> 
> I created a symbolic link to *.gconf* as *gconf* because the command 
> gconftool-2 it is not aceptting a directory name starting with a point, 
> it requires a / starting the name directory. So I done the command line:
> ln -sf .gconf  gconf
> 
> And after that I done the command line:
> gconftool-2 --set --type=string 
> /home/nogueira/gconf/apps/ekiga/devices/video/input_device "Generic 
> Vimicro 303b"
> 
> But when I verify what happend with:
> more /home/nogueira/gconf/apps/ekiga/devices/video/ %gconf.xml
> I verify it change not anything.
> 
> But if I verify by using the command:
> gconftool-2 --get /home/nogueira/gconf/apps/ekiga/devices/video/input_device
> 
> I see that the input_device has the value I set above. But the cam is 
> showing the images gave by the other cam and not that one I set above.

The correct syntax is to pass the key where the value is stored to the
command line, not the full path. It should thus start with /apps/ekiga .

No need to do symbolic links, it is not correct...
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