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

[Antonio Carlos Ribeiro Nogueira]

Ok, you are correct Damien. But just in order I understand and learn a 
bit more: why not
gconftool-2 --set --type=string /ekiga/devices/video/input_device 
"Generic Vimicro 303b"
instead of
gconftool-2 --set --type=string /apps/ekiga/devices/video/input_device 
"Generic Vimicro 303b"

Thanks a lot for your help.
Antonio Carlos

Damien Sandras escreveu:
> 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...
>